And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTTYou 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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Joy is the best makeup.
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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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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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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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