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.
ANNE LAMOTTJoy is the best makeup.
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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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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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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 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.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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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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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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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of 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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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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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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