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Us 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…
- Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how…
- 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…
- Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us…
- When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
- You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories,…
- Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
- My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive…
- I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where…
- Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's…
- I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love…
- A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the…
- I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
- These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.
- I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we…
- I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or…
- It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit,…
- Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their…
- The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side…
- For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat,…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle