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Monday, January 07, 2008

Voice of the Day: Lamott on Forgiving

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

- Anne Lamott
Traveling Mercies

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I love this quote--it is so true, and use it often in my work as a psychotherapist.

Posted by: Lori Nyi | January 7, 2008 3:24 PM

There was an interesting piece last week in the L.A. Times suggesting that forgiving attitutdes have a strong genetic component.

I don't like to forgive so I'm very pleased to know that now I can blame it on the wrong genes.

Posted by: canucklehead | January 7, 2008 3:54 PM

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