Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
ANNE LAMOTTDogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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