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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
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San Francisco County
California
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For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, I hate you, God. That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.
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Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.
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I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.
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Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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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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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
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I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
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...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
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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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