When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
ANNE LAMOTTI can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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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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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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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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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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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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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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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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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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But 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.
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