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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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I am all the ages I've ever been.
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A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
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Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.
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For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
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one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.
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To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.
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When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.
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The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.
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Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
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My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.
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... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]
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It's a great time to be alive.
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Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.
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Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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