Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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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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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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