"The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s…" — Anne Lamott
"The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty."
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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 Certainty Quotes
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one of 970 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
— Geraldine Brooks
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
— Robert Burns
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his…
— Lord Byron
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
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