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Anne Lamott Inspirational Quotes (567)

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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
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My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me.
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The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.
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What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
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It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.
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Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.
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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
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I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
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A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.
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Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.
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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
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What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
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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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I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.
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