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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.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
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one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.
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Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
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Her purse was a weight, ballast it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
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These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
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What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?
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I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
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If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.
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I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to “help” and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.
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Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?
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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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It's better to be kind than to be right.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.
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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
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If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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