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The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#brains #determining #else #inescapable #just

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. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#created #god #hates #image #out

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. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#found #grace #i #i do #leave

I'm not hard to get along with. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#get #hard #i

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. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#been #circumstances #creating #enjoy #find

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#along #between #could #find #found

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#everyone #hippies #like #look #ones

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#always #faith #first #god #had

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#because #everything #give #hope #hopeless

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. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#cry #heals #holding #know #lament