The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
ANNE LAMOTTSometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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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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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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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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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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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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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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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 don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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