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Anne Lamott Inspirational Quotes (567)

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...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
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This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
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This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.
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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
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You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.
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Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.
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Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It's that simple.
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We all know we're going to die what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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