I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
ANNE LAMOTTOne 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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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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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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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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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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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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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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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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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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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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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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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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