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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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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.
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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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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
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There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.
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To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.
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My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
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It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
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Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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