Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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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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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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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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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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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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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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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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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