"I sat down in the sand, breathless with……" — Anne Lamott
"I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen."
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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 Arc Quotes
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The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
— Rob Bell
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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
— Charles Bukowski
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
— Martin Amis
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
— Pema Chodron
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Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who…
— Dave Barry
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Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that…
— Merlin Stone
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards,…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something…
— Nancy Kress
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When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and…
— Dante Alighieri
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After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some…
— Brittany Snow
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