Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
ANNE LAMOTTA 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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No is a complete sentence.
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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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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.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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