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I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
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Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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only grieving can heal grief the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
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Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.
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If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)
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