The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
ANNE LAMOTTWhat fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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.
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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’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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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.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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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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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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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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