- All truth is paradox.
- Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes – including you.
- There’s nothing outside of you that will help in any kind of lasting way…
- Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared, even the people who seem to have it most together.
- Chocolate with 75% cacao is not actually a food.
- Every writer you know writes really terrible first drafts, but …
- … successes are something you have to recover from.
- Families are hard…
- Food. Try to do a little better.
- Grace…
- God just means goodness.
- As Ram Dass said, “When all is said and done, we’re really just all walking each other home.”
In her writing, Anne Lamott rides roughshod over the topics that makes most people cringe. With radical honesty and practicality, she tells it like it is … with just enough humor and grace that maybe, just maybe, we can swallow the truth whole. Watch the TED talk given just before her 61st birthday as she pondered “my list of things I’m almost positive about.”
Watch the TED Talk by Anne Lamott – 12 things I learned from life and writing
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