I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
ANNE LAMOTTPrayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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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 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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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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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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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