What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
ANNE LAMOTTAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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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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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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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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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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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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