Hope begins in the dark.
ANNE LAMOTTButterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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No is a complete sentence.
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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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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 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 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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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