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Been Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures…
- Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably…
- Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
- I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.
- Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy…
- This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
- Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages…
- The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still…
- Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it…
- I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
- I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her…
- I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place…
- I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been…
- Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents…
- Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the…
- And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there…
- Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the…
- I am all the ages I've ever been.
- The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But…
- The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side…
- We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The…
- She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way…
- Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where…
- And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given…
- If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in…
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour