Anne Lamott is an American teacher, speaker, and author of numerous novels and nonfiction books. Her writings and teachings cover subjects such as faith, Christianity, and sobriety.
CLEAR ALL
If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.
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The overuse of prescription drugs provides a vacation from personal responsibility.
We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
I seemed to hear God saying, ‘Put down your gun and we’ll talk.’
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.