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I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

From Anne Lamott

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

From Anne Lamott

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.

From Anne Lamott

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

From Anne Lamott

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

From Anne Lamott

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

From Anne Lamott

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

From Anne Lamott

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

From Anne Lamott

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

From Anne Lamott

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

From Anne Lamott

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