Anne Lamott is an American teacher, speaker, and author of numerous novels and nonfiction books. Her writings and teachings cover subjects such as faith, Christianity, and sobriety.
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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. . . it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.
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Respect the fact that all you do and are now has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.
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The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.