A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
ANNE LAMOTTWhat fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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