I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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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Joy is the best makeup.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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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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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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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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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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I 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.
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