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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity. The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts. I hate that. I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the world can't take it away.
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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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...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
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Novels ought to have hope at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.
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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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The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.
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The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
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I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.
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I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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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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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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There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
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My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
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