Frasi di Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott è scrittore, attivista (progressista).

✵ 10. Aprile 1954   •   Altri nomi آنا لاموت, אן למוט
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Anne Lamott: Frasi in inglese

“Joy is the best makeup.”

Origine: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.”

Origine: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“… the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”

Origine: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“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.”

Traveling Mercies; on page 22 of Bird by Bird she attributes this to "my priest friend Tom"

“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”

Variante: Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
Origine: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”

Variante: You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.
Origine: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”

Traveling Mercies
Origine: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town”

Origine: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”

Origine: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”

Origine: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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