Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTTGetting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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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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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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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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