Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
ANNE LAMOTTYour 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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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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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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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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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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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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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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