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 LAMOTTLove is so much bigger than our ignorance.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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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.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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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.
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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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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s 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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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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