Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTTSmall is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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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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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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