"You own everything that happened to you. Tell……" — Anne Lamott
"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better."
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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 Behaved Quotes
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My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension…
— Steve Ballmer
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I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
— Brigitte Bardot
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved…
— Jeff Bridges
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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed…
— Octavia Butler
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My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they…
— Amy Chua
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There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or…
— Fleur Adcock
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My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could…
— Betty Ford
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.
— Jamelia
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