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.
ANNE LAMOTTI can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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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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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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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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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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