Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.

Anne Lamott's Popular Quotes

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

- Anne Lamott

You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.

- Anne Lamott

I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

- Anne Lamott

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

- Anne Lamott

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

- Anne Lamott

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

- Anne Lamott

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of …

- Anne Lamott

Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sw…

- Anne Lamott

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

- Anne Lamott