Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
ANNE LAMOTTYour 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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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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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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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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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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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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