What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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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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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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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 own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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