"For twenty years I have ached to go……" — Anne Lamott
"For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return."
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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott
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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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O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us…
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Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands…
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Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps…
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When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was…
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I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.
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Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her…
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My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in…
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I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I…
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Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility…
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He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to…
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There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into…
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The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I…
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