"Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting." — Anne Lamott
"Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting."
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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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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy…
— Omar N. Bradley
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It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
— William Barclay
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The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than…
— Arthur W. Pink
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The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power…
— Will Hutton
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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally…
— Henri Barbusse
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I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.
— Lewis Buzbee
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The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to…
— Robert Falcon Scott
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Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most…
— Wayne Muller
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