My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
ANNE LAMOTTI do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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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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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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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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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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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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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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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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