"Getting into a new relationship is like pouring……" — Anne Lamott

"Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects."

— Anne Lamott

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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott has 489 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look…
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the…
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make…
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to…
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now.…
...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy…
They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that…

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about… — J. J. Abrams
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was… — Lance Armstrong
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a… — Rowan Atkinson
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -… — Rowan Atkinson

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