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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.
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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.
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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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Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable worry about being absent or fraudulent.
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Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
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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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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
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If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)
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My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.
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My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
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A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
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