So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
ANNE LAMOTTWriting and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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But 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.
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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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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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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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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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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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