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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Ever
Disappoint
Rarely
Experiences
Friendship
Alone
Truth
Best

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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.
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Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.
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All freedom comes from discipline.
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I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.
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I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.
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I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.
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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
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I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.
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You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.
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