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There is ecstasy in paying attention.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Attention
Ecstasy
Paying

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Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.
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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
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Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
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Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
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Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
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Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to “help” and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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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 can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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