"Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and……" — Anne Lamott
"Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns."
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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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More Discomfort Quotes
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
— Arnold Bennett
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I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was…
— Lisa Bonet
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If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time…
— Wendell Berry
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It was so fascinating to be a part of this, because as the women took on these central roles that…
— Olivia Wilde
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Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is…
— Dalai Lama
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When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to…
— Byron Katie
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As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell…
— Pema Chodron
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Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to…
— Deepak Chopra
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend…
— Jack Kornfield
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Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when…
— Rajneesh
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There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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