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Moments Quotes by Anne Lamott
- You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come…
- I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and…
- 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…
- If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved…
- 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…
- The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while…
- And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is…
- 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…
- But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger…
- ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
- 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…
- Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out…
- I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any…
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- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
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- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba