A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
ANNE LAMOTTThe road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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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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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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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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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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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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