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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Answered
Prayer
Help
Helping
Always

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I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior or how to save and fix and rescue or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.
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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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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
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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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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being here on this scary planet, during these scary times, as vulnerable as kittens, having lost so many people I couldn't live without.
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Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.
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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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I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.
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If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.
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