This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
ANNE LAMOTTA good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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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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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 carbonated holiness.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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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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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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