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.
ANNE LAMOTTWriting and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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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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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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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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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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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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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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