You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.… - Anne Lamott

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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

Anne Lamott

Bird by Bird · October 1, 1995 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Anne Lamott (born 10 April 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

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Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. - Anne Lamott

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