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Feelings Quotes by Anne Lamott
- 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…
- Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way,…
- I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or…
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to…
- The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it…
- God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He…
- 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…
- I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them…
- If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
- Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast…
- by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to…
- Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you…
- There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the…
- Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a…
More Feelings Quotes
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about… — Irving Babbitt
- When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have… — Lauren Bacall
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall
- The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu
- I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs