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Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
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I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
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My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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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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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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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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Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
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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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I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.
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I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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