You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
ANNE LAMOTTWriting and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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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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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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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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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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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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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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