To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
ANNE LAMOTTWhen 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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