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I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
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I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.
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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.
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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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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
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If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
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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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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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