"She felt as if the mosaic she had……" — Anne Lamott
"She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together."
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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 Assembling Quotes
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
— John Milton
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Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty…
— Unknown Author
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Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make…
— Shirley M. Tilghman
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that…
— Aberjhani
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The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny…
— James Madison
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The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
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In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness…
— Keith Floyd
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The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
— Reid Hoffman
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I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.
— James Ellroy
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I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the…
— Henry Mayhew
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