Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
ANNE LAMOTTJoy is the best makeup.
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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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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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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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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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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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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