"In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat……" — Anne Lamott
"In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die."
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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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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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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good…
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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