Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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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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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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