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I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.
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I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
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I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.
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I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.
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I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
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Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.
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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
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