"I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world."

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Anne Lamott

#Believe Quotes #Parent Quotes #Trying Quotes

“When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"”
“The Clintons are very close with everybody on the Democratic side.”
“Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.”
“No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.”
“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
“Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.”
“I definitely feel like when I write a book it's not my job to police or guide the readers. The book and the characters don't belong to me anymore. If that makes sense.”

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“Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.”

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