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Anne Lamott Inspirational Quotes (567)

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Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.
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After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
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The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.
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Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.
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But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.
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I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
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For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
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I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity. The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts. I hate that. I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the world can't take it away.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.
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I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.
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She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.
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My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.
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It's better to be kind than to be right.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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