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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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The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
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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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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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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.
Anne Lamott
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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A hundred years from now? All new people.
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I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.
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A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
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It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.
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You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
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I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.
Anne Lamott
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.
Anne Lamott
Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.
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Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
Anne Lamott
I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
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