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.
ANNE LAMOTTA good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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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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Joy is the best makeup.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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