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Anne Lamott Inspirational Quotes (567)

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Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
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Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
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Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
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I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.
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Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.
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A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.
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I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like when you're first learning to put nail polish on your right hand with your left. You can do it, but it doesn't look all that great around the cuticles.
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The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being here on this scary planet, during these scary times, as vulnerable as kittens, having lost so many people I couldn't live without.
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When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
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All freedom comes from discipline.
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Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.
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You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
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