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Anne Lamott Inspirational Quotes (567)

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I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
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It's a great time to be alive.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
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If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
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The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
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I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
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When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
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I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.
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My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.
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Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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