The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
ANNE LAMOTTHere are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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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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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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