"I was usually filled with a sense of……" — Anne Lamott
"I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: "Thank you."
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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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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy…
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow…
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Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the…
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
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I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.
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I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser…
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
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Soon the sun beams will smile through. Before you jump out of that bed, just know, the thought of you…
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I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam…
— John Charles Polanyi
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We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive…
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