Anne Lamott Quotes about Feelings

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If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.

If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.

Anne Lamott

Feelings, Body, Range

Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.74, Penguin

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.

Anne Lamott

Feelings, Depth, Surprise

My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.

Anne Lamott

Dog, Feelings, Contentment

Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.30, Anchor

Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.

Anne Lamott

Writing, People, Feelings

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

Anne Lamott

Break Through, Feelings, Looks

Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.

Anne Lamott

Voice, Joy, Feelings

Anne Lamott Quotes about Feelings

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