I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
ANNE LAMOTTAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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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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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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And 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.
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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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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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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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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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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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