The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
ANNE LAMOTTForgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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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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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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