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 LamottJealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence youโve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.
Anne LamottGrace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
Anne LamottI'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.
Anne LamottPresents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.
Anne Lamott