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.
ANNE LAMOTTGrace 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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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