Expectations are resentments under construction.
ANNE LAMOTTJoy is the best makeup.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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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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