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Take Quotes by Anne Lamott
- It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things…
- You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into…
- People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
- 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…
- Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
- Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our…
- I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn…
- Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
- I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying…
- 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 cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me,…
- If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation…
- The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if…
- Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd…
- A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God…
- You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush…
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