I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
ANNE LAMOTTPay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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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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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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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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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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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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