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.
ANNE LAMOTTPay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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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 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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Joy is the best makeup.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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