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If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.
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One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
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Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
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No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
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Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
Anne Lamott
I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.
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There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.
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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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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
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Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
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[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer if you love, you will grieve. (68)
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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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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.
Anne Lamott
Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
Anne Lamott