My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
ANNE LAMOTTYou own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding 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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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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