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 LAMOTTYou 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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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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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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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 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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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