I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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 don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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