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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
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Present
Forever
Lasts
Really

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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
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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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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
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Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.
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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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Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.
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Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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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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We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.
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