Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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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.
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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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