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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
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Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.
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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
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My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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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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I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.
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A hundred years from now? All new people.
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I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.
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It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.
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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
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Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.
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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
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I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.
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Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
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