Anne Lamott Quotes

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

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  Simple, Answers

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• Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

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  Creating, People, Trying

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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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• This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.

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  Spiritual, Wind, Giving

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

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• I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

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  Tree, Unity, Needs

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

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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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• Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

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  Reading, Writing, Soul

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.237, Anchor

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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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• 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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• 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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• Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.

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  Dream, Pain, Heart

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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