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Book: Imperfect Birds
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Anne Lamott _ Imperfect Birds
We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. {p. 253}
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Anne Lamott _ Imperfect Birds
butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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Anne Lamott _ Imperfect Birds
This is parenting on steroids.
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{W}hen you're dreaming, you're not the one calling the shots. So it's a reprieve.
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Do you think that we're wired this way? With the devil inside?" "Yeah, in the same way we're wired for God. But not to the same extent.
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God loves you crazily, like I love you, Rae said, like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.
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Anne Lamott _ Imperfect Birds
Look, if you don't have a bad attitude and lots of things wrong with you, no serious person is going to be interested. If you feel scared, outraged, confused most of the time, come on over. Have a seat.
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Anne Lamott _ Imperfect Birds
You stop pretending life is such fin or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people.
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Nah. But on the first day of class, when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew these people weren't fooling around.' " Lank
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