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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
– Anne Lamott

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  2. I know nothing, except what everyone knows–if there when grace dances, I should dance. – Anne Lamott
  3. Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath. – Philip Pullman
  4. In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. – Anne Fadiman
  5. We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another’s warm hands. – Mohamed Ghazi
  6. The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you’re holding a pen and the other guy’s holding a sword. – Dave Besseling
  7. I don’t believe in a country where it’s more acceptable to see two men holding guns than two men holding hands. – Brian Whitaker
  8. I can’t protect you without holding a sword. I can’t embrace you while holding a sword. – Tite Kubo
  9. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are. – Anne Lamott
  10. …It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. – Anne Lamott
  11. She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91) – Anne Lamott
  12. She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming anymore. [p. 227] – Anne Lamott
  13. It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you’re burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. – Anne Lamott
  14. Resentments make even the best of us feel superior. – Anne Lamott
  15. A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal. – Anne Lamott
  16. A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal. – Anne Lamott
  17. 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
  18. I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness. – Anne Lamott
  19. There are really places in your heart that you don’t know exist until you love a child. – Anne Lamott
  20. How alive am I willing to be? – Anne Lamott
  21. I’ll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can–until I die. – Anne Lamott
  22. Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets. – Anne Lamott
  23. …the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. – Anne Lamott
  24. Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you. – Anne Lamott
  25. First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping. – Anne Lamott
  26. Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. – Anne Lamott
  27. Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination. – Anne Lamott
  28. 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
  29. [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
  30. You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn’t, with lotion, polish, and kindness. – Anne Lamott
  31. 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
  32. He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous. – Anne Lamott
  33. grace is a small white ????erfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101. – Anne Lamott
  34. God can’t clean the house of you when you’re still in it. – Anne Lamott
  35. It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you. – Anne Lamott
  36. Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. – Anne Lamott
  37. Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram–it’s the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar. – Anne Lamott
  38. A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. – Anne Lamott
  39. 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
  40. Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. – Anne Lamott

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