"I’m probably just as good a mother as……" — Anne Lamott
"I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac."
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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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I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has…
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those…
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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short…
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I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.
— Kelly Clarkson
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in…
— Fiona Apple
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Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment…
— Unknown Author
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Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and…
— Barbara Oakley
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When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our…
— Elizabeth I
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid…
— Martin Gardner
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I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.
— Deepika Padukone
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Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.
— Courtney Thorne Smith
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