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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Almost
Everything
Work
Unplug
Including
Minutes

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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.
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Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.
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I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
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The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack.
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Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
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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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Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable worry about being absent or fraudulent.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
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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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