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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.

— Anne Lamott

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You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

..I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

The game of life is hard, and a lot of us are playing hurt.

The dressing-room encounter that made me get real about aging" The Washington Post (2023)

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