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.
ANNE LAMOTTLighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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 not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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