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Life Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
- Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures…
- 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…
- 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…
- One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is…
- Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life Besides, perfectionism will…
- This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.
- All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and…
- What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a…
- The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who…
- I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction.…
- What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to…
- When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
- And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the…
- I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And…
- We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
- Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
- You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
- 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…
- My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and…
- A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the…
- 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,…
- Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
- I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends,…
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