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The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Awakening
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Obsessed
Self
Madness
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Gratitude
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Grace

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