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Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Anne Lamott

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
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Hate Prayer Sincere Thinking Yourself
Expectations are resentments under construction.
ANNE LAMOTT

Construction Expectation Regret
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Himself Impossible Start Wonderful
Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Need Water Woman Yourself
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
ANNE LAMOTT

Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTT

Compare Side Yourself
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
ANNE LAMOTT

Invitation Prayer Relationship Silence Unique
No is a complete sentence.
ANNE LAMOTT

Complete One Liner Sentence
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
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Finding Leaving Mystery Understand Yourself
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTT

Ourselves Present Thinking World
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Comfortable Death Safety Stay
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
ANNE LAMOTT

Light Run Save Shine Stand
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Earth Light Myself Present Sun

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

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