Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
ANNE LAMOTTThe 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?
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding 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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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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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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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 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.
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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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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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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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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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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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