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Sam said to me the other day, I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops, and this is the exact same way in which I love him.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
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We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.
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The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
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If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
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Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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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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One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
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Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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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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only grieving can heal grief the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
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It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.
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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
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I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
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