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.
ANNE LAMOTTAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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No is a complete sentence.
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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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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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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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