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There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Essence
Attention
Inspirational
Everything
Kind
Openness
World
Ecstasy
Holiness
Paying

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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
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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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The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
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...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
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We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
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