No is a complete sentence.
ANNE LAMOTTThe 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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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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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 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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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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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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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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