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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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Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.
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I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
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