Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
ANNE LAMOTTHope begins in the dark.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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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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