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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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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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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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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The 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?
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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