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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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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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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
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It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.
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And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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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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...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.
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If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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