You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
ANNE LAMOTTLove is so much bigger than our ignorance.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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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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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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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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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 don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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