Anne Lamott Quotes

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• Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

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  Minutes, Including, Ifs

  "'Every Single Thing I Know, as of Today': Author Anne Lamott Shares Life Wisdom in Viral Facebook Post". www.today.com. April 10, 2015.

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• It's better to be kind than to be right.

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  Be Kind, Kind

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• Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

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  Friendship, Spiritual, Love You

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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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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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Autism

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

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• Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools or oceans because your thighs were jiggly or you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.

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  Nice, Ocean, Kids

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• You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

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  Hurt, Grief, Heart

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• Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

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  Grace, This Life, Owners

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• We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.

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  Cooperation

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

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  Running, Commitment, Acceptance

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

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  Simple, Answers

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Voice

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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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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  Faith, Light, Return

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.257, Penguin

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• Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

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  God, Prayer, Water

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.108, Anchor

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• Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.

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  Spiritual, Laughter, Laughing

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.308, Penguin

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• It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

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  Prayer, Honesty, Kids

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.92, Anchor

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• You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

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  Positivity, Practice, Be Kind

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.94, Penguin

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• Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

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  Forgiveness, Mean, Unimportant

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.47, Penguin

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• I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.

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  Law, People, Four

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• Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

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  Gratitude, Joy, Understanding

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.295, Penguin

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• When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.

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  Three, Be Kind, Praying

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• I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Light

  "Growing into grace". Interview, www.washingtontimes.com. March 5, 2008.

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• Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.

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  Waiting, Age, Triumph

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• Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

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  Dog, Knowing, Sides

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• ... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

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  Nuts, Tribes, Reason

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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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  Heart, Soul, Age

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