I 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.
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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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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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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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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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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