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.
ANNE LAMOTTTo 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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I 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.
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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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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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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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