You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
ANNE LAMOTTSmall is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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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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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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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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