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 LAMOTTHope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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 don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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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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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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.
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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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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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