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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
Novelist
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...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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