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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. (Anne Lamott)
I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. View quote
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[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68) View quote
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I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from. View quote
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in. View quote
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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind. View quote
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It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you. View quote
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Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table. View quote
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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open. View quote
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If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little. View quote
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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college. (Anne Lamott)
Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am all the ages I've ever been. View quote
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans. View quote
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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return. View quote
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[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral. View quote
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There is ecstasy in paying attention. View quote
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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. View quote
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My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don't know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake. View quote
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Write as if your parents are dead. (Anne Lamott)
Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad. View quote
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I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. View quote
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Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him. View quote
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When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down. View quote
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