What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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 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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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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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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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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