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Persons Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.
- 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…
- I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction.…
- I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
- I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
- I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And…
- God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He…
- Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person…
- Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person.…
- After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
- You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good…
- This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean…
- I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young…
- And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
- Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially…
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong