Hope begins in the dark.
ANNE LAMOTTWhat’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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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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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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 don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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