We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
ANNE LAMOTTRule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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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 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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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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