All Anne Lamott Quotes
- 'Help' is a prayer that is always answered. Always Answered
- I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself. Answered
- You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see… Confidence
- Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life. Enemy
- Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures… Age
- You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come… Acting
- You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. Chattering
- In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. Die
- Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. Charles
- To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we… All
- ...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a… Bathing
- They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really… All
- The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is… Day
- You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.… Approximately
- Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls… All
- Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and… Always Sort
- It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things… All
- We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look. Both
- There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence… Attention
- Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck. Breathing
- A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's… Baby
- Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there,… Attempting
- Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a… All
- Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there. Davis
- The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between… Bosom
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