Anne Lamott Helping Quotations

Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.

This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds.

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.

People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.