I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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