We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
ANNE LAMOTTA 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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