Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
ANNE LAMOTTNever compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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I 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.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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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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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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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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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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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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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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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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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