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.
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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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A 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.
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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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.
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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