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.
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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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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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.
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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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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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 don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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