Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
ANNE LAMOTTA big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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 can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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