The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
ANNE LAMOTTThis is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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