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 LAMOTTLaughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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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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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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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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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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