And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTTAnd as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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No is a complete sentence.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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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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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?
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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