What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
ANNE LAMOTTAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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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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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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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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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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