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I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Humanness
Greet
Together
Human
Humans
People

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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
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I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.
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If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.
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I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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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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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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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
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Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
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I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.
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Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.
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