A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
ANNE LAMOTT
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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