We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
ANNE LAMOTTI don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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