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  1. Anne Lamott _ Traveling Mercies: Some

    When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you.
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  2. Anne Lamott _ Traveling Mercies: Some

    The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
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  3. Anne Lamott _ Traveling Mercies: Some

    I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die.
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  4. Anne Lamott _ Traveling Mercies: Some

    These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
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  5. Anne Lamott _ Traveling Mercies: Some

    Here are the two best prayers I know: "Help me help me, help me," and "Thank you, thank you, thank you."
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  6. Anne Lamott _ Traveling Mercies: Some

    ...that grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish.
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  7. Anne Lamott _ Traveling Mercies: Some

    They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.
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  8. Anne Lamott _ Traveling Mercies: Some

    There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start to run. Its tender partly because it harkens back to infancy, to your mother washing your face with love and lots or water, tending to you, making you clean all over again.
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  9. Anne Lamott _ Traveling Mercies: Some

    Maybe it is because music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add the tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way."
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  10. Anne Lamott _ Traveling Mercies: Some

    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.
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  11. Anne Lamott _ Traveling Mercies: Some

    For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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  12. Anne Lamott _ Traveling Mercies: Some

    I know that sometimes these friends feel that they have been expelled from the ordinary world they lived in before and that they are now citizens of the Land of the Fucked.
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