Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
ANNE LAMOTTWriting and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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