My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
ANNE LAMOTTSo a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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 reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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