Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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No is a complete sentence.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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