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Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior or how to save and fix and rescue or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.
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If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
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Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
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Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type.
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One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
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if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
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My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.
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I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.
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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
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Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
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[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
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These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
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Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
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