Anne Lamott Quotes About Expectations

Quotes about: Expectations

• Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.

  Anne Lamott

  Expectations, Ponds, Attention

• Expectations are resentments under construction.

  Anne Lamott

  Parenting, Expectations, Resentment

  Anne Lamott (2017). “Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy”, p.29, Penguin

• I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and don’t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I don’t know why it’s not more like it is in the movies, why things don’t come out neatly and lessons can’t be learned when you’re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such motley packaging.

  Anne Lamott

  Mistake, Fall, Heart

• When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

  Anne Lamott

  Expectations, Sometimes, Floats

• Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

  Anne Lamott

  Expectations, Waiting, Resentment

  Anne Lamott (2011). “Crooked Little Heart: A Novel”, p.233, Anchor

• When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.

  Anne Lamott

  Faith, Expectations, Community

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