You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
ANNE LAMOTTGrace 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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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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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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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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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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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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