Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
ANNE LAMOTTLaughter is carbonated holiness.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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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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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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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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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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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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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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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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