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.
ANNE LAMOTTLaughter is carbonated holiness.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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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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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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