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.
ANNE LAMOTTBut 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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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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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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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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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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