I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
ANNE LAMOTTYou have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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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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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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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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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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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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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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