"I was raised in a family where none……" — Anne Lamott
"I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled."
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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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England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip…
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But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems…
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I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were…
— Terry Gilliam
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I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.
— John Grisham
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The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's…
— Jeff Buckley
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In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power,…
— Jeff Goodell
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I was 'gay-bashed' when I was in school even though, you know, I'm not... I'm a straight guy that just…
— Grant Gustin
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I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around.
— Carey Mulligan
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Here's the analogy. If my body were a car, I'd be thinking about trading it in around now. I would…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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I've bashed my body for 30 years and I've just got to eat properly and not drink too much -…
— Ian Woosnam
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When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
— Billy Corgan
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what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
— Allen Ginsberg
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