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.
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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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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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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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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No is a complete sentence.
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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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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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