Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
ANNE LAMOTTSometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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 is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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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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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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