For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what t…

Anne Lamott
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For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms. ✨ Anne Lamott (2008). Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, p.59, Penguin
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. ✨ Anne Lamott (2006). Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, p.257, Penguin
I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's t … ▶
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For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms. ✨ Anne Lamott (2008). Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, p.59, Penguin

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