Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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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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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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To 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.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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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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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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