Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamottis an American novelist and non-fiction writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth10 April 1954
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
laughter keys grace
Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.
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Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.
children pain grace
You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
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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 is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
The American way is to not need help, but to help.
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The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
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I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.
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Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.
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I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.