Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
ANNE LAMOTTWhen faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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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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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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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 get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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