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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

Anne Lamott

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
ANNE LAMOTT

Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Care Message Moral Passionate Position Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Atmosphere Gift Self Care
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT

Holy Laughter One Liner
Hope begins in the dark.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Darkness Hope
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Different Grace Universe Yourself
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Time Work Yourself
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 LAMOTT

Better People Story Warm Writing Yourself
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Finding Leaving Mystery Understand Yourself
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
ANNE LAMOTT

Light Run Save Shine Stand
Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Hate Prayer Sincere Thinking Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Existence Heart Place Remember
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
ANNE LAMOTT

Character Miracle Relationship Yourself
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
ANNE LAMOTT

Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Comfortable Death Safety Stay

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