You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
ANNE LAMOTTI don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Human 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.
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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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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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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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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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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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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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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 faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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