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Anne Lamott Quote: “I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn’t be here if I had continued with it.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “The pain does grow less acute, but the insidious palace lie that we will get over crushing loses means that our emotional GPS can never find true north, as it is based on maps that no longer mention the most important places we have been to. page 40.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “The reality is that most of us lived our first decades feeling welcome only when certain conditions applied: we felt safe and embraced only when the parental units were getting along, when we were on our best behavior, doing well in school, not causing problems, and had as few needs as possible. If you needed more from them, best of luck.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “I remind myself of this when I cannot get any work done: to live as if I am dying, because the truth is we are all terminal on this bus. To live as if we are dying gives us a chance to experience some real presence.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Toni Morrison said, “The function of freedom is to free someone else,” and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Forgiveness and mercy mean that, bit by bit, you begin to outshine the resentment.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father – God as borderline personality.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I’m not carried in Christian bookstores.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?”
Anne Lamott Quote: “But in surrender you have won.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Vonnegut said, “When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” So.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “The Dalai Lama said that “religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Some aching beauty comes with huge loss, although maybe not right away, when it would be helpful. Life is a very powerful force, despite the constant discouragement. So if you are a person with connections to life, a few tendrils eventually break through the sidewalk of loss, and you notice them, maybe space out studying them for a few moments, or maybe they tickle you into movement and response, if only because you have to scratch your nose.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “I was learning the secrets of life: that you could become the woman you’d dared to dream of being, but to do so you were going to have to fall in love with your own crazy, ruined self.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Like the Buddha and Jesus, who knew they couldn’t control our lives, but could infuse lives with their selves, we have been graced with a few people.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “All these years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But what I’ve discovered since is that lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place and that only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “God makes a way out of no way.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I’m not sure. That’s my answer: I’m not sure.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “The redwoods are like organ pipes, playing silent chords.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “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, upper arms.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “It’s funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Help” is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn’t matter how you pray – with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, “Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “We’re bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “The good news is that if you don’t seal up your heart with caulking compound, and instead stay permeable, people stay alive inside you, and maybe outside you, too, forever. This.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “My natural tendency is to complicate everything – and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I’ve had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Alone, we are doomed, but by the same token, we’ve learned that people are impossible, even the ones we love most – especially the ones we love most: they’re damaged, prickly and set in their ways.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “I’d like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Jesus was soft on crime. He’d never have been elected anything.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “I mean “God” as shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy selves.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Science, art, community, and nature make manifest that bad will or mistakes can lead to progress, like Bob Ross on his show The Joy of Painting reminding us that when we make big mistakes on canvas, we can turn them into birds – “Yeah, they’re birds now!”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Mark Twain said that Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Look at us,” he said. His speech was difficult to understand, thick and slow as a warped record. His two friends in the picture had Down’s syndrome. All three of them looked extremely pleased with themselves. I admired the picture and then handed it back to him. He stopped, so I stopped, too. He pointed to his own image. “That,” he said, “is one cool man.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “Your job is to present clearly your viewpoint, your line of vision. Your job is to see people as they really are, and to do this, you have to know who you are in the most compassionate possible sense.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you’re burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.”
Anne Lamott Quote: “No matter what circumstances, it’s hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.”
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