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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.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Prayer #Despair #Helping
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“Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Ignorance #Love Is #Bigger
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“Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Inspirational #Breathing #Necks
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“This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Cain #Earth #Abel
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“We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Inspirational #Trying #Looks
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“Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Dream #Honesty #Interesting
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“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Minutes
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“It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Kids #Thinking #Self
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“Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Dog #Knowing #Sides
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“I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Religious #People #Worried
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“You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Artist #Finding Yourself #Tea
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“I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Views #World #Way
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“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Faith #Light #Return
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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.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Self #Parent #Identity
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“And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Dance #Cold #Moments
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“Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Spiritual #Meditation #Drug
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“All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what I've discovered is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place, and that only grieving can heal grief. The passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Lying #Grief #Grieving
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“I believe in listening to what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Believe #Heart #Listening
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“It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Moving #Fall #Helping Others
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“I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Christian #Believe #Terrible
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“A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Love #Marriage #People
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“I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Home #Dark #People
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“All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Kids #Grandparent #Relief
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“Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Christian #Jesus #Down And
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“Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Stuff #Sometimes #Lifetime
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“Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Heart #Compassion #Self
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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.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Witty #Character #Thinking
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“Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Children #True Friend #Mean
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“My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Drug #My Family #Alcoholics
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“But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.”
-- Anne Lamott
#Wind #Grace #Want
