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Feels Quotes by Anne Lamott
- All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like…
- I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published…
- No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get…
- You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories,…
- Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and…
- Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
- I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love…
- I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
- I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or…
- 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…
- Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You…
- 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…
- Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
- 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…
- Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime…
- It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and…
- A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
- I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me,…
- 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…
- I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published…
- Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
- And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees,…
- I pray not to be such a whiny, self-obsessed baby, and give thanks that I am not quite as bad as I used to be…
- It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as…
- If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will…
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- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
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- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash