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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

Anne Lamott

Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
ANNE LAMOTT

Dance Judgement Right Yourself
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
ANNE LAMOTT

Invitation Prayer Relationship Silence Unique
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
ANNE LAMOTT

Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Miracle Morning Night Wake Up
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Healing Hold People Scary Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Carry Death Easy Greatness Life Mom Ourselves
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT

Holy Laughter One Liner
The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
ANNE LAMOTT

Day Life Reason Tribe Work Yourself
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
ANNE LAMOTT

Better Forgiveness Hope Past
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTT

Life Ourselves Soul Wide Writing
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 LAMOTT

Earth Light Myself Present Sun
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTT

Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Himself Impossible Start Wonderful
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTT

Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
ANNE LAMOTT

Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself

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