Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTTYou can either practice being right or practice being kind.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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