Expectations are resentments under construction.
ANNE LAMOTTPay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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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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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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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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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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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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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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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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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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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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No is a complete sentence.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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