Quote by Anne Lamott
When were dealing with the people in our family - no matter how an

When were dealing with the people in our family – no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs – we give from the deepest parts of ourselves. – Anne Lamott

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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. – Anne Lamott

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If you dont die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. – Anne Lamott

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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. – Anne Lamott

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If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. – Temple Grandin

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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat. – Anna Quindlen

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Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie — not perfect but who’s complaining? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers. – Les Brown

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History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures

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We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously–to love each other, hate each other–but then–it isnt true. It isnt true, we dont care at all! – Ugo Betti

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Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. – James Freeman Clarke

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[H]istory is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position. – Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History

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