Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
ANNE LAMOTTYou can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding 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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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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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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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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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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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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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.
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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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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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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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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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