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... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.
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Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.
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I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and stressed, in which case you need an hour. I promise you, it is there. Fight tooth and nail to find time, to make it. It is our true wealth, this moment, this hour, this day.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.
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Her purse was a weight, ballast it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
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[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer if you love, you will grieve. (68)
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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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My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.
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