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You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Resented
Inflict
Someone
Must
Life

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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.
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On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.
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I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
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For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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