I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
ANNE LAMOTTTo 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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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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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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No is a complete sentence.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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