You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
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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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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