Expectations are resentments under construction.
ANNE LAMOTTDogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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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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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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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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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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