Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
ANNE LAMOTTWhen faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including 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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No is a complete sentence.
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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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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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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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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s 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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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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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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