When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
ANNE LAMOTTWe are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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 have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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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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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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