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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear that's what Jesus said to do.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Jesus
Everyone
Trying
Love
Lend
Serve
Ears
Bring
Water

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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 giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who have some psychological healing to lean up against, and gorgeous lives. All writers think that this time, the jig is up, and they will be exposed as frauds.
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One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
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The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.
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And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'
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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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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
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What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat 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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