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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Beauty Blessings Crystal Desert Die Gospel Gospel Music Great Like Music Neil Neil Young Ocean Precise Pulled Silence Sky Thirst Tiny Uplift Which Will Yearn You Young Your

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My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Across Another Coming Did Doubt Each Faith Fear Green Grew Held Land Leaf Leap Like Lily Me Moved Next Pads Place Places Prepared Rather Round Safe Safe Place Seemed Series Start Swamp Then Up Way Which While Would

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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 a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Altar Box Candles Catholic Catholic Church Church Cross Every Every Second Glass Holy Incense Loved Poor Rendered Second Smells Stained Stations Sweet Water Windows

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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Baby Cry Heals Holding Know Lament Letting Like Listen Look Love Nothing Our Parts People Scariest Us You

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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Always Better Blown Gets Me Some Waiting Ways Whistle Work

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It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Also Beautiful Big Big Hair Competitive Day Entitled Fit Good Great Hair Legs Long Many Most Players Privileged Reality Rest Simple Spoiled Stock Tan Teeth Tennis Them Then Us Were White

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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Everyone Good Grace Humor Life Manage Manual Owner Through Whatever Without

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I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Christian God Goodness Happen Kindness Know Love People Same Truth

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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Expectation Forth Hope Image Onto Opens Pinned Shiny Sometimes

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I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Anxiety Colleagues Culture Even Fame Fulfilled Got Had Inside Kind Lot Make Maybe Me Preschool Promised Quiet Respect Society Stature Tells Things Whole Will Would You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 10th, 1954

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