A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
ANNE LAMOTTA big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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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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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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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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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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