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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
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That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it.
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Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.
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Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.
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Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.
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One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
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Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.
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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.
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Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
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I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
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The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
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Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
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I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face, or consider, or experience, that I talk about with my friends and brothers. It's universal stuff, told in my own voice, my own details and truth, which is all I have to offer.
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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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