Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
ANNE LAMOTTWhat fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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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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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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