Expectations are resentments under construction.
ANNE LAMOTTI can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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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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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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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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