Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
ANNE LAMOTTDogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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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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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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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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