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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.

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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Thinking
World
Awe
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It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity. The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts. I hate that. I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the world can't take it away.
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I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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It's a great time to be alive.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
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The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.
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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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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.
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No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.
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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
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All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like when you're first learning to put nail polish on your right hand with your left. You can do it, but it doesn't look all that great around the cuticles.
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I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
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