Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
Anne LamottSome people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.
Anne LamottEveryone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
Anne LamottI took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.
Anne Lamott