And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
ANNE LAMOTTWe are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Joy is the best makeup.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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No is a complete sentence.
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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 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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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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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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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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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 do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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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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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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.
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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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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