Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTTI’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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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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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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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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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