Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTT
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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 do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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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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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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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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