Hope begins in the dark.
ANNE LAMOTTWhen faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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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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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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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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