My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
ANNE LAMOTTI was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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Joy is the best makeup.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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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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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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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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