You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
ANNE LAMOTTOr 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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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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