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A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much.

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much.
– Anne Lamott

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  2. You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself. – Anne Lamott
  3. Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life. – Oli Anderson
  4. Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
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  6. Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored. – Brian Greene
  7. One with more insight (sooj) is considered wise. To have more insight [sooj] is a natural gift. One may have more sooj but may have no intellect. – Dada Bhagwan
  8. Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem… – Max McKeown
  9. I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance. – Anne Lamott
  10. There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man. – Ikechukwu Izuakor
  11. When I asked Father Tom where we find God in this present darkness, he said that God is in creation, and to get outdoors as much as you can. – Anne Lamott
  12. You don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. – Anne Lamott
  13. A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. – Anne Lamott
  14. Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe. – Anne Lamott
  15. There are three things I love, three things I spend time with, three things I treat alike: family; friends; and books. – Ogwo David Emenike
  16. There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. – Diana Gabaldon
  17. Three quarters of faith is boldness.Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence.Three quarters of love is kindness. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  18. Love and truth are intimately connected. You cannot have pure love without pure truth and you cannot have pure truth without pure love. – Molly Friedenfeld
  19. To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
  20. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
  21. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
  22. We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours. – Richard Wright
  23. I live by three simple words: compassion, love and gratitude. We need to act on these three words daily. Doing so will irrevocably change your world. – Julian Pencilliah
  24. Earlier People used to hate a lieSince now lie has become truth and truth has become a lie.They still hate a lie – irrfan ishaq
  25. …It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. – Anne Lamott
  26. Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath. – Anne Lamott
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  28. Certainty is missing the point entirely. – Anne Lamott
  29. It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you’re burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. – Anne Lamott
  30. And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it’s that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped. – Anne Lamott
  31. I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness. – Anne Lamott
  32. I’ve given guys blow jobs just because I’ve run out of things to talk about.’Oh, Rae. Who hasn’t – Anne Lamott
  33. How alive am I willing to be? – Anne Lamott
  34. I’ll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can–until I die. – Anne Lamott
  35. If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death. – Anne Lamott
  36. [Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves. – Anne Lamott
  37. grace is a small white ????erfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101. – Anne Lamott
  38. I know nothing, except what everyone knows–if there when grace dances, I should dance. – Anne Lamott
  39. God can’t clean the house of you when you’re still in it. – Anne Lamott
  40. Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. – Anne Lamott

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