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.
ANNE LAMOTTLaughter is carbonated holiness.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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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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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring 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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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I 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.
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