Wisdom from Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott

• "When we discovered who we truly are, through love or a teacher, new life began" (41)
• "Help is the sunny side of control." (45)
• "Joy is a habit." (56)
• "Sharing is what makes us happy" (65)
• "When we hate, we can't operate from our real selves, which is our strength." (75-6)
• "Something that helps is to look at adversaries as people who are helping you do a kind of emotional weight training . . . [they are] grace-builders" (76)
• "The right teacher could work miracles." (79)
• "Is surprised gratitude the same as love? I don't know. But I think it can be where love begins." (81)
• "I am part of a great We" (82)
• "So as a radical act we give up the hate and the hunch the best we can." (84)
• "gratitude is a very bright light" (116)
• "Advice God always gives me if I think to ask: Go do some anonymous thing for lonely people, give a few bucks to every poor person you see, return phone calls. Get out of yourself and become a person for others, while simultaneously practicing radical self-care: maybe have a bite to eat, check in with the sky twice, buy some cute socks, take a nap." (131)
• "There is the wonder of the ethereal, the quantum and at the same time the umbilical. Don't call it God if that lessens it for you. Call it Ed. Call it Shalom. The Quakers, who are not as awful as most other Christians, call it the light." 😂 (132)
• "God is often in solitude and quiet, through the still, small voice - in the breeze, not the the thunder." (137)
• "When I pray, I have more good days." (139)
• "expectations are resentments under construction." (168)
• "the bigger, more real, and friendlier the world inside me becomes, the safer I feel in the outside world. As above, so below; as inside, so before us." (173)
• "'Why' is rarely a useful question in the hope business." (183)