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.
ANNE LAMOTTI can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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 am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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