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I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
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Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.
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Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.
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Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe, he said. Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe. Salon April 25, 2003
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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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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 was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.
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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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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
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I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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There is ecstasy in paying attention.
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This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
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