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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

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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Writing

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I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.
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The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.
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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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Age has given me the gift of me it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
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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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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
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I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack.
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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.
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My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
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I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
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The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
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