Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
ANNE LAMOTTWhat fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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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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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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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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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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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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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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