Quotes by Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

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We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
In paintings, music, poetry, architecture, we feel the elusive energy that moves through us and the air and the ground a — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, wh — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
The Amen is only as good as the attitude. If you are trying to finish up quickly so you can check your cell phone messag — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhausted and depressed b — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, becaus — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get i — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the exp — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, li — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about snake — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers