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Heart Quotes by Anne Lamott
- 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…
- Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an…
- 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,…
- 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 try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets,…
- 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…
- You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over…
- Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that…
- My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable
- ...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and…
- I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The…
- I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
- There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their…
- This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean…
- I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations,…
- I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you…
- 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…
- Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
More Heart Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin