Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
ANNE LAMOTTBecoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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