Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
ANNE LAMOTTThis is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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.
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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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