Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
ANNE LAMOTTHuman lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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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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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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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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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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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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