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.
ANNE LAMOTTHope 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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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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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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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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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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