Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
ANNE LAMOTTSmall is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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