How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
ANNE LAMOTTGratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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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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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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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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