Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
ANNE LAMOTTThe 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?
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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 own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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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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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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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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