The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
ANNE LAMOTTPay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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.
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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.
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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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