Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
ANNE LAMOTTDon’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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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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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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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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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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