You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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 was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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