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Expectations are resentments under construction.

Anne Lamott

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
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
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Time Work Yourself
The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
ANNE LAMOTT

Day Life Reason Tribe Work Yourself
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTT

Life Ourselves Soul Wide Writing
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT

Holy Laughter One Liner
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Ourselves Present Thinking World
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Born Mess Notice True Wild
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Believe God Myself Prayer
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Myself Religious Understand
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Healing Hold People Scary Yourself
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
ANNE LAMOTT

Help Offering People Save Yourself
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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Light Run Save Shine Stand

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