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I hope you find these Anne Lamott Quotes inspiring and motivational.
You can safely assume that you've
created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates
all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented;
we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
- Anne Lamott
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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