I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTTYou can either practice being right or practice being kind.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s 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 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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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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