"I write because writing is the gift God……" — Anne Lamott
"I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world."
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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 Gift Quotes
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one of 3,896 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness…
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God…
— Saint Augustine
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Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
— Richard Bach
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard Bach
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What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm…
— Erykah Badu
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I…
— Erykah Badu
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance…
— Oksana Baiul
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced…
— Javier Bardem
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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
— Bruce Barton
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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