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Place Quotes by Anne Lamott
- You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care,…
- All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what…
- All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same things I needed…
- 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…
- My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another.…
- Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth,…
- ...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them.…
- Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as…
- Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves.…
- Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you…
- 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 guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means…
- I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place...
- It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas…
More Place Quotes
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden