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Best Us Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you…
- 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.…
- 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…
- For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
- Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being…
- 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…
- We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people…
- Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to…
- When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around…
- 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…
- When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life,…
- Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
- Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
- Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little…
- Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be…
- It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as…
- Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially…
- This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It…
- 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 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
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong