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.
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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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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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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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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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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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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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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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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