Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
ANNE LAMOTTDon’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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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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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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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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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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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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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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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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