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.
ANNE LAMOTTLaughter is carbonated holiness.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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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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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.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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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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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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