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I'm a Buddhist. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#another #breath #child #complacent #days

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#perfectionism #voice

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#change #i #i am #life #people

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#better #blown #gets #me #some

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#another #birthday #celebrating #only #part

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #before #cry #days #get

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blood #children #earth #egyptians #expecting

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#children #chocolate #flowers #give #give me

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through. ↗

— Frank Lampard

#aspects #come #does #enough #game