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Anne Lamott Inspirational Quotes (567)

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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
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You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
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If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
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I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.
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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
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What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?
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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
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All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.
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And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.
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You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.
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