Joy is the best makeup.
ANNE LAMOTTI’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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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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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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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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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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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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