Joy is the best makeup.
ANNE LAMOTTNo is a complete sentence.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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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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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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