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.
ANNE LAMOTTNever compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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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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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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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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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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