You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
ANNE LAMOTTGratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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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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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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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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