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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Positivity
Either
Practice
Right
Kind

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Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
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I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: Thank you.
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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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My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
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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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...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
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One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
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My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.
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It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
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We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
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I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
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