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Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
California
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
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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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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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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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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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It's a great time to be alive.
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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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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
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The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
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No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
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I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
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You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.
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That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it.
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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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It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
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Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.
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