Hope begins in the dark.
ANNE LAMOTTLaughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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