A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
ANNE LAMOTTTo 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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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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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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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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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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