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It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
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The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.
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She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.
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It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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