"It was not facing what life dealt that……" — Anne Lamott
"It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable."
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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 Crazy Quotes
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North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.
— Richard Armitage
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.
— Emilie Autumn
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I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.
— Sebastian Bach
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded…
— Douglas Adams
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I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie…
— Christine Baranski
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I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever…
— Javier Bardem
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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
— Edward Abbey
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
— Dave Barry
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
— Lynda Barry
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
— Marion Barry
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
— Drew Barrymore
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