This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
ANNE LAMOTTNo is a complete sentence.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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 can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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