Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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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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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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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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