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.
ANNE LAMOTTWe begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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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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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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