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?
ANNE LAMOTTWhat’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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