'No' is a complete sentence.
--Anne Lamott
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
--Anne Lamott
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes. Including you.
--Anne Lamott
Expectations are resentments under construction.
--Anne Lamott
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
--Anne Lamott
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
--Anne Lamott
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.
--Anne Lamott
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
--Anne Lamott
I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
--Anne Lamott
I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
--Anne Lamott
If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
--Anne Lamott
It's better to be kind than to be right.
--Anne Lamott
It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T.
--Anne Lamott
Joy is the best makeup.
--Anne Lamott
Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
--Anne Lamott
Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.
--Anne Lamott
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
--Anne Lamott
Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.
--Anne Lamott
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
--Anne Lamott
One hundred years from now? All new people.
--Anne Lamott
Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
--Anne Lamott
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.
--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.
--Anne Lamott
The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.
--Anne Lamott
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
--Anne Lamott
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
--Anne Lamott
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
--Anne Lamott
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
--Anne Lamott
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
--Anne Lamott
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