"When you pray, you are not starting the……" — Anne Lamott
"When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress."
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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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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which,…
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I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
— Charles Barkley
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
— Mario Batali
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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Love without conversation is impossible.
— Mortimer Adler
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I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like…
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