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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.
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Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.
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There is ecstasy in paying attention.
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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.
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The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being here on this scary planet, during these scary times, as vulnerable as kittens, having lost so many people I couldn't live without.
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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
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You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
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And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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Certainty is missing the point entirely.
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