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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
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.
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Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.
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You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
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Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.
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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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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.
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The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.
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Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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