Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTTAnd 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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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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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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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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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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