A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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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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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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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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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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