This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
ANNE LAMOTTWe are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
-
-
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.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTT -
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
ANNE LAMOTT -
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
ANNE LAMOTT -
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.
ANNE LAMOTT -
We 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.
ANNE LAMOTT -
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
ANNE LAMOTT -
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Joy is the best makeup.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
ANNE LAMOTT -
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.
ANNE LAMOTT -
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.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
ANNE LAMOTT -
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.
ANNE LAMOTT -
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.
ANNE LAMOTT -
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
ANNE LAMOTT -
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 LAMOTT -
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 -
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.
ANNE LAMOTT -
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTT -
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.
ANNE LAMOTT -
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
ANNE LAMOTT