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.
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 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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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