You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
ANNE LAMOTTLighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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No is a complete sentence.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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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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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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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 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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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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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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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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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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