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.
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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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