Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
ANNE LAMOTTNever compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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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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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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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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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 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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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