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Anne Lamott quotes

American Author April 10, 1954

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Anne Lamott quote: "It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for..."
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life. Anne Lamott
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere. Anne Lamott
Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurt, but you had to tough it out.(Imperfect Birds) Anne Lamott
You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way. Anne Lamott
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 writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal. 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 have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions. Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott quote: "Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They..."
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott quote: " the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your..."
... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66] Anne Lamott
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, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. Anne Lamott
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life ... Anne Lamott
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees. Anne Lamott
Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever. Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott quote: "We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we..."
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. Anne Lamott
I had enough to wrestle, wrangle and settle back into, with this one life of mine. Besides, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution. Anne Lamott
She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together. Anne Lamott

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