I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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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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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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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.
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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.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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