Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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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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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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