"Expectations are resentments under construction." — Anne Lamott
"Expectations are resentments under construction."
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Anne Lamott
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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott has 489 quotes on this site.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look…
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the…
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to…
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now.…
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy…
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that…
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More Construction Quotes
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one of 462 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
— Francis Bacon
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When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part…
— Russell Brand
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the…
— Edmund Burke
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff.…
— Adam Carolla
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Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction…
— Adrienne Clarkson
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It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will…
— David Allan Coe
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to…
— Tadao Ando
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This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and…
— Dominique Easley
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
— Richard Courant
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His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of…
— Nikki Giovanni
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It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to…
— Paulo Freire
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