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.
ANNE LAMOTTThe road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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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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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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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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No is a complete sentence.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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