This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
ANNE LAMOTTAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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No is a complete sentence.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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