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And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Quiet
Hear
Trying
Mind

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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children.
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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
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Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Certainty is missing the point entirely.
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I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.
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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.
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I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.
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