Anne Lamott Quotes

Blessed are those that nought expect, for they shall not be disappointed.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

Realize that you are not alone, that we are in this together and most importantly that there is hope

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

Sahara Shree has put a lot of faith in me and I'm hoping to live up to his confidence.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

expectation isn't the same as desire

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

We are not, and never need be, alone.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it!

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

God doesn't intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each other. We need each other.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.