Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
ANNE LAMOTTSo a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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