{"author":"Anne Lamott","author_id":"Anne+Lamott","total_quotes":241,"quotes":[{"text":"It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["fall","help","hopeless","positivity"],"id":266,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["beauty","golden-calves","holy-beauty","jesus","worship"],"id":3042,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91).","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["fear","irony"],"id":3205,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["life","perfectionism","writing"],"id":8049,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["forgiveness"],"id":9495,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. You need to trust yourself, especially on a first draft, where amid the anxiety and self-doubt, there should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["creativity","dance","writing"],"id":9950,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["day","holiness","laughter","life","secret","tribe"],"id":11651,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["beautiful","beauty","fear","freedom","lies","safe","safety"],"id":16220,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["books","meaning","reading"],"id":17064,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["life-lessons","writers","writing-process"],"id":17941,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":241,"pages":25,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}