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Anne Lamott Quotes: I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.
         

I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.


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



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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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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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I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.



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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.





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