Expectations are resentments under construction.
ANNE LAMOTTWhen God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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 can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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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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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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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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No is a complete sentence.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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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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