Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTTWhen faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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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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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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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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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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