Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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 spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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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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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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