Anne Lamott Traveling Mercies Quotes & Sayings

McGovern's Dietary Goals had turned the dietary-fat controversy into a political issue rather than a scientific one, — Gary Taubes

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared. — Jerome Bruner

Anne Lamott says in Traveling Mercies, I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said, Do the best you can with these, they will have to do. And mostly, against all odds, they're enough. — Melanie Shankle

Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings. — Brian Weiss

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history. — Laura Anne Gilman

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe. — Ted Nugent

Cat's waiting is a kind of love. — Jie Zhang

Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible. — Horace

In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the logic of the most severe, rigorous and atavistic stupidity. — William C. Brown

Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there. — Andrew Jackson