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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
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A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
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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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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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Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
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You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God -- and I believe there is -- that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.
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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.
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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get
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Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.
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If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.
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If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
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Her purse was a weight, ballast it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
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