Anne Lamott Quotes About Hurt

Quotes about: Hurt

• You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Grief, Heart

• You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Writing, Eye

• We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people cheat. Everywhere on every level. Everyone's cheated. I'm just saying that you don't need to see yourself as a cheater. Because that's not who you are. You're someone who cheated. There's a difference, and you should try to get that difference, or that's who you'll grow up to be.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Growing Up, Cheater

• Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Teenager, Tough

  Anne Lamott (2010). “Imperfect Birds: A Novel”, p.12, Penguin

• Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Brother, Book

• You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.

  Anne Lamott

  Letting Go, Hurt, Children

• I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Years, Resentment

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.220, Penguin

• All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Criticism, Hurt Me

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