Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
ANNE LAMOTTAnd she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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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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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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