Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
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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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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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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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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