My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
ANNE LAMOTTBut grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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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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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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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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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Hope 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.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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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.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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