What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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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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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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 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.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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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 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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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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