Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTTLove 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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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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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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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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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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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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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