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Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
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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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Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.
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When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
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If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.
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