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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
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Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.
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He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.
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... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
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I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
Anne Lamott
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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The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.
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Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
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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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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.
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Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
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When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.
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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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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
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I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.
Anne Lamott
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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