What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
ANNE LAMOTTYou 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.
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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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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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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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One 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.
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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