I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTTPeople help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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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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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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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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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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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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