The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
ANNE LAMOTTJoy is the best makeup.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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Joy is the best makeup.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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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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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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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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