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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.

Anne Lamott

Joy is the best makeup.
ANNE LAMOTT

Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Hate Prayer Sincere Thinking Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Drink God Myself Thinking
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Experience Grace Resolution Strength Wind Yourself
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Hope Right Work Yourself
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Difference God Thinking Yourself
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
ANNE LAMOTT

Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
ANNE LAMOTT

Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
ANNE LAMOTT

Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Miracle Morning Night Wake Up
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Creation Expression Search Time Writing
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTT

Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
ANNE LAMOTT

Character Miracle Relationship Yourself
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTT

Ourselves Present Thinking World
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
ANNE LAMOTT

Alone Mindset Myself Try
I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
ANNE LAMOTT

Law Myself Reminder Right Spirit

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