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  1. Anne Lamott _ Almost Everything: Notes on

    Those plates would be filled with love, pride, and connection. That care is what we have longed for our whole lives, and what we create when we are kinder to our bodies and our hungry souls.
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    What helps is that we are not all crazy and hopeless on the same day.
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    You never get over certain losses, but the anguish part eventually ends, and it all just sucks for a while. There were moments when I understood that there was nothing much I was going to understand or figure out. There was simply the present moment, awareness, impermanence, birdsong, love. There is no fixing this setup here. It seems broken and ruined at times, but it isn't: it's simply the nature of human life.
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    We can change. People say we can't, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change. It offers more of itself when we agree to give up our busyness.
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    The bakery, on the other hand, was a family's understanding that a kid didn't have to do or achieve or own anything more for the world to care, and even delight in her.
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  6. Anne Lamott _ Almost Everything: Notes on

    death is not the enemy; snakes are. And cheese: it is addictive and irresistible. I have had three kinds so far today.
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    My good ideas for other people so often seem to annoy them.
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  8. Anne Lamott _ Almost Everything: Notes on

    I absolutely don't buy into the current mania for tidiness and decluttering. For a writer, piles of papers and notes are a fertile field. Keep all those books you read in college, or had certainly meant to read. Keep all those clothes that last fit during the Carter administration. Or give them away. It's for you to choose. You has value.
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  9. Anne Lamott _ Almost Everything: Notes on

    Niels Bohr wrote, "The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth can be another profound truth.
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  10. Anne Lamott _ Almost Everything: Notes on

    Haters want us to hate them, because hate is incapacitating. When we hate, we can't operate from our real selves, which is our strength. Now that I think of it, this is such a great reason to give up our hate-as revenge, to deprive the haters of what they want.
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  11. Anne Lamott _ Almost Everything: Notes on

    Love and goodness and the world's beauty and humanity are the reasons we have hope."
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  12. Anne Lamott _ Almost Everything: Notes on

    Science, art, community, and nature make manifest that bad will or mistakes can lead to progress, like Bob Ross on his show The Joy of Painting reminding us that when we make big mistakes on canvas, we can turn them into birds-"Yeah, they're birds now!
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