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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Beauty
Attention
Surrounding
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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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[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer if you love, you will grieve. (68)
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The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being here on this scary planet, during these scary times, as vulnerable as kittens, having lost so many people I couldn't live without.
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It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.
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Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
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Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.
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Good writing is about telling the truth.
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I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
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You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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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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I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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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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I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack.
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Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
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Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.
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I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
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