"My heart was broken and my head was…" — Anne Lamott
"My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable"
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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 barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me…
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to…
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Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!
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I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would…
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Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley…
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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth…
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I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking,…
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Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and…
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Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words…
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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
— Margaret Cho
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training…
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