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.
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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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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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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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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