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If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.
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My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.
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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear that's what Jesus said to do.
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What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?
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Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)
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The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
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I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
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This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
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A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
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The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.
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