We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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 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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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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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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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