You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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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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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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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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