"There are a lot of us, some published,……" — Anne Lamott
"There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal."
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Anne Lamott
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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott
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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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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
— Herbert Spencer
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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act…
— Albert Einstein
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Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things…
— William Alcott
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Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!
— George W. Crane
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture.…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall…
— Raymond Charles Barker
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Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is…
— Unknown Author
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In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before…
— Corinne Heline
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The points or tips of the chakras, where they connect to the main power current, are called the roots or…
— Barbara Brennan
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