What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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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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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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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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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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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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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’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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