No is a complete sentence.
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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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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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 can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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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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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.
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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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