Anne Lamott
"Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother."
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"Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother."
"أكثر ما فيّ ابتهج حين ماتت أمي. لقد كانت عبئًا ثقيلاً، لا بالمعنى الظريف أو المرح، بل بالمعنى الذي يهدد الحياة، والذي دفعني منذ زمن بعيد إلى التخلي عن كل أمل في أن أشعر يومًا بالرضا لكونها أمي."
Anne Lamott
"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."
"إنّي لا أُسلِمُ أمَلي قطّ، لأنّ كلّ شيءٍ في جوهرهِ ميؤوسٌ منه."
Anne Lamott
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
"الأمل يولد في العتمة، ذلك الأمل العنيد الذي يهمس بأنك إن حضرت وسعيت لفعل الصواب، فالفجر لا بد آتٍ. تنتظر وتراقب وتعمل: لا تستسلم أبدًا."
Anne Lamott
"Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white paint and trying again each time finding out what his painting isn't until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is you're off and running."
"تخيل رساماً بارعاً يحاول تجسيد رؤيا داخلية، يبدأ من زاوية واحدة من اللوحة، يرسم ما يعتقد أنه ينبغي أن يكون هناك، فلا يوفق تماماً، فيغطيها بالطلاء الأبيض، ثم يحاول من جديد، وفي كل مرة يكتشف ما ليست لوحته، حتى يكتشف أخيراً ما هي عليه. وحين تكتشف أخيراً ما هي عليه زاوية واحدة من رؤياك، تنطلق بعدها بلا توقف."
Anne Lamott
"My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean."
"امتناني للكتابة الجيدة لا حدّ له، أمتنّ لها كما أمتنّ للمحيط."
Anne Lamott
"All wise people say the same thing that you are deserving of love and that it's all here now everything you need. When you pray you are not starting the conversation from scratch just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress."
"كل الحكماء يقولون الشيء ذاته: أنك تستحق الحب، وأن كل ما تحتاجه موجود هنا الآن. حين تصلي، لا تبدأ حديثًا من الصفر، بل تتذكر فقط أن تعود وتتصل بحديث دائم لا ينقطع."
Anne Lamott
"Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
"الأمل يولد في العتمة، ذلك الأمل العنيد الذي يهمس بأنك إن واظبت على الحضور وسعيت لفعل الصواب، فالفجر لا بد آتٍ. تنتظر وتراقب وتعمل: لا تستسلم."
Anne Lamott
"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. There was sanctuary in a library, there is sanctuary now, from the war, from the storms of our family and our own anxious minds. Libraries are like the mountain, or the meadows behind the goat lady’s house: sacred s"
"لقد علّمني والداي، ومعهم أمناء المكتبات على مرّ السنين، عن الفراغات بين الكلمات؛ عن الهوامش التي تختبئ فيها لحظاتٌ غنيةٌ بالحياة والروح والصداقة. في المكتبة، يمكنك أن تعثر على المعجزات والحقائق، وقد تجد ما يضحكك حتى تُسكت بلطفٍ بالغ. كان في المكتبة ملاذٌ، وما زال فيها ملاذٌ الآن، من الحرب، ومن عواصف عائلاتنا وعقولنا القلقة. المكتبات كالجبل، أو المروج خلف منزل سيدة الماعز: مقدسة."
Anne Lamott
"I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish."
Anne Lamott
"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship."
Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird
"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."
Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird
"Help is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom."
Anne Lamott
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
"Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us."
Anne Lamott
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
Anne Lamott
"You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born."
Anne Lamott
"Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn't go swimming in those warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen."
Anne Lamott
"You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself."
Anne Lamott
"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writer who tend to be shy, get to stay at home and still be public."
Anne Lamott
"Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar."
Anne Lamott
"If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it."
Anne Lamott
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