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When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
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Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?
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And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'
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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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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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