Anne Lamott Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.

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  Gratitude, Mean, Heart

  "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers". Book by Anne Lamott, November 13, 2012.

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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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  Prayer, Two, Helping

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.75, Anchor

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• My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

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  Mind, Trying, Neighborhood

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• You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

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  Recovery, Monkeys, Circus

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• When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

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  Progress, Scratches, Praying

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.25, Penguin

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• You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.

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  Song, Memories, Writing

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• Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

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  Relationship, Giving Up, Past

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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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  Inspirational, Life, God

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.22, Anchor

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• Hope begins in the dark.

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  Inspirational, Healing, Dark

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.23, Anchor

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• But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.

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  Grief, Home, Voice

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• I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

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  Father, Real, Light

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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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  Jesus, Struggle, Thinking

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.47, Penguin

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• But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

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  Wind, Grace, Want

  Anne Lamott (2013). “Thanks: The Second Essential Prayer”, p.7, Hachette UK

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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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  Baby, People, Looks

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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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• 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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• 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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• Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.

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  Mother, Laughter, Kindness

  "Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith". Book by Anne Lamott, 2007.

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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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• Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.

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  Prayer, Grief, Believe

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.37, Penguin

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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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• You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess, and lonely, and His or Her child. God loved you no matter how crazy you felt on the inside, no matter what a fake you were; always, even in your current condition, even before coffee. God loves you crazily, like I love you...like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.

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  Lonely, Children, Crazy

  Anne Lamott (2010). “Imperfect Birds: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin

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• What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.

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  Prayer, Thinking, Light

  "Help, Thanks, Wow". Book by Anne Lamott, June 20, 2013.

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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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  Prayer, Car, Church

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.37, Penguin

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