Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
ANNE LAMOTTNothing 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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