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 LAMOTTCreative 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including 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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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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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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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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 falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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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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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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