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Anne Lamott  Quotes
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family,...

—Anne Lamott

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He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shine through like crazy, the brillian mind and humor, the depth of generosity, the intense blue yes, those...

—Anne Lamott

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You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the...

—Anne Lamott

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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

—Anne Lamott

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Gratitude
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

—Anne Lamott

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I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don’t know.

—Anne Lamott

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My mother’s eyes were large and brown, like my son’s, but unlike Sam’s, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can’t quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

—Anne Lamott

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…I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog.

—Anne Lamott

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It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life.

—Anne Lamott

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Life
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I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to...

—Anne Lamott

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Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being...

—Anne Lamott

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Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily more profound, but there was a struggle going on inside me to find...

—Anne Lamott

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And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.

—Anne Lamott

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I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

—Anne Lamott

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I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and...

—Anne Lamott

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Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people’s lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

—Anne Lamott

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Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

—Anne Lamott

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Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

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I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he’s brave enough to try and make contact, right there on the edge of madness, where he dreams.

—Anne Lamott

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…the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

—Anne Lamott

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I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your most beloved mental-patient relative, with great humor and...

—Anne Lamott

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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

—Anne Lamott

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Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother’s strong suit.

—Anne Lamott

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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.

—Anne Lamott

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LivesSpiritual
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I’ve written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don’t really have a genre these days.

—Anne Lamott

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Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don’t drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor’s yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep...

—Anne Lamott

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But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You’re not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are Spirit, you are...

—Anne Lamott

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The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it…I would discover that it hadn’t washed me away.

—Anne Lamott

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Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, “Well, that’s pretty much...

—Anne Lamott

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Life is really pretty tricky, and there’s a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn’t live without.

—Anne Lamott

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I’ve known for years that resentments don’t hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

—Anne Lamott

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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I’d hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

—Anne Lamott

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Will call him a she when the pee-pee is gone. Says “Brave is to endure stares, jeers, prejudice. He won’t.

—Anne Lamott

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We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

—Anne Lamott

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I don’t know where to start,” one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can....

—Anne Lamott

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Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy....

—Anne Lamott

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We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it’s a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.

—Anne Lamott

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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline…. But also every single day a kid needs a break.

—Anne Lamott

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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

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I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

—Anne Lamott

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I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights,...

—Anne Lamott

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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.

—Anne Lamott

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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don’t get to meet some of the people who love God back.

—Anne Lamott

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His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he’s somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he’s making dream material visible.

—Anne Lamott

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A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I’m not going to take...

—Anne Lamott

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Rosie had to keep her room neat enough so James would not freak out, but not so neat that they could figure it all out, break the code, of who you truly were, what you...

—Anne Lamott

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Identity
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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...

—Anne Lamott

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Again
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I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was...

—Anne Lamott

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I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of...

—Anne Lamott

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BusyChild
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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

—Anne Lamott

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