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.
ANNE LAMOTTIf we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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No is a complete sentence.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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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 have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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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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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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