Browsing Quotes By Anne Lamott
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Yet another piece of the solution dropped into place when my friend Judy said that the problem was trying to stop the jealousy and competitiveness, and that the main thing was not to let it fuel my self-loathing. She said it was nuts for me to try to be happy for this other writer. I cannot tell you how much this helped. I was raised in a culture that promotes this competitiveness, this insatiability, this fantasy of needing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and then, in the next breath, shames you for any feelings of longing or envy of fear that it will always be someone else’s turn. I was only doing what I had been groomed to do.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A moral position is not a slogan, or wishful thinking. It doesn’t come from outside or above. It begins inside the heart… and grows from there.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!