I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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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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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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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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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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Love 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.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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