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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
California
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All freedom comes from discipline.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
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We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
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If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
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The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.
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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.
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And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'
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We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.
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I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
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Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
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