What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
ANNE LAMOTTEveryone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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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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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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 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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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