And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTTI am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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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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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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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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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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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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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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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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