Anne Lamott is an American teacher, speaker, and author of numerous novels and nonfiction books. Her writings and teachings cover subjects such as faith, Christianity, and sobriety.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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We are what we believe we are!
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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