A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
ANNE LAMOTTMy mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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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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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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No is a complete sentence.
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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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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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