We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
ANNE LAMOTTHope 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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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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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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