Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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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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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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