At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get almost everything that many of you graduates are hoping for--except for the money. I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled--all the things that the culture tells you, from preschool on, will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you. I got some stature, the respect of other writers, even a low-grade fame. The culture says these things will save you, as long as you also manage to keep your weight down. But the culture lies.
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. - Anne Lamott
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
You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you. - Anne Lamott
I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. - Anne Lamott
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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
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 …
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity. - Anne Lamott
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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
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.
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
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…
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
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.
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