Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTTRadical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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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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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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No is a complete sentence.
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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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