"Expectations are resentments under construction."

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Source : Anne Lamott (2017). “Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy”, p.29, Penguin

Anne Lamott

#Parenting Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Resentment Quotes

“Gold is money. Everything else is credit.”
“I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.”
“The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.”

Source : Édouard Glissant (1989). “Caribbean discourse: selected essays”, Caraf Books
“Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.”
“Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.”

Source : "Viral Video Singer Betty Who Doesn't Want to Get Proposed to in Home Depot". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 8, 2013.
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
“Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.”
“Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself”

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