Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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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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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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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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.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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