Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTTOne thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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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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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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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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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 reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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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