No is a complete sentence.
ANNE LAMOTTLove falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank 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 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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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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