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.
ANNE LAMOTTNothing 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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 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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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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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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