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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Goodness
Bible
Jesus
Seems
Way
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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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.
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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.
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For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
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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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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
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Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
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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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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.
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Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
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You have to be a warrior and say, Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine. (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.
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Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.
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