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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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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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My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today. That the moment is holy, sacred, and all there is - and that we are only as sick as our secrets. So TELL IT.
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I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.
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I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.
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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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...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.
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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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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
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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.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.
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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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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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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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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
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My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.
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I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
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