You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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No is a complete sentence.
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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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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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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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