I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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 don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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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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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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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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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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