Anne Lamott: Citations en anglais
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“… the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”
Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Traveling Mercies; on page 22 of Bird by Bird she attributes this to "my priest friend Tom"
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”
Variante: Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Variante: You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”
Traveling Mercies
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
“You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town”
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
