How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
ANNE LAMOTTRadical 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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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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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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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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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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