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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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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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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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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I 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.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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.
ANNE LAMOTT