Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
ANNE LAMOTT
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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No is a complete sentence.
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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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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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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
ANNE LAMOTT