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Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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A hundred years from now? All new people.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
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Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.
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Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.
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