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If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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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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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
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You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.
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And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.
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...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.
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I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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A hundred years from now? All new people.
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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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Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.
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I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
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I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.
Anne Lamott
Her purse was a weight, ballast it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
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