We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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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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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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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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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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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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