"All those years I fell for the great……" — Anne Lamott
"All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what I've discovered is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place, and that only grieving can heal grief. The passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it."
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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott has 489 quotes on this site.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look…
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the…
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to…
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now.…
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy…
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that…
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What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is…
— Albert Einstein
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my…
— Robert Burns
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of…
— Joseph Story
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That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that…
— Frederick Jackson Turner
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning…
— John Stuart Mill
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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things…
— William Hazlitt
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Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected…
— Carl Jung
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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have…
— George Bernard Shaw
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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than…
— Samuel Johnson
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