You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
ANNE LAMOTTWe are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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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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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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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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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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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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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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