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.
ANNE LAMOTTHuman 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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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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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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