Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTTLaughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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