No is a complete sentence.
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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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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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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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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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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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.
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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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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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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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