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Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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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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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
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Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
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Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.
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Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It's that simple.
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I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.
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We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.
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There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.
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I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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She lived in fear of ifonic endings.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.
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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear that's what Jesus said to do.
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We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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