I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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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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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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