Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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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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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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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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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