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Told Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up…
- I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom…
- We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. 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…
- For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures,…
- 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…
- Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told…
- He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster,…
- 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…
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