Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
ANNE LAMOTTRadical 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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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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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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