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Best One Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
- My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just…
- There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and…
- Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that…
- This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
- ...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness…
- one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do,…
- 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…
- If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in…
- I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and…
- One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid…
- ... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
- Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops…
- And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
- Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences 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…
- I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping…
- Hope is not about proving anything. Its about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle