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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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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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If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
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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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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
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My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
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Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car.
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The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
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I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.
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I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.
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