Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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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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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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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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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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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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 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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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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