Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
ANNE LAMOTTGratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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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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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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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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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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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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No is a complete sentence.
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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