Hope begins in the dark.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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