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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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One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
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Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
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This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.
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You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.
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I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
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I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.
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I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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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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Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car.
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Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
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It's better to be kind than to be right.
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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
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My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
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I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
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Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.
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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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