And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTTOr 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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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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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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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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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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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.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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