The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
ANNE LAMOTTSmall is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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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.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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No is a complete sentence.
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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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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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