A Quote by Anne Lamott

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
American - Novelist
Born: April 10, 1954

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Tony McCoy

This is the hope of many adolescent girls--to capture a parent's heart with love for them as they are, as people. They reject thenotion of being loved just because they are the child of the parent. They want the parent to fall in love with them all over again, because being new, they deserve a new love.

Terri E Apter

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Peter Charles Newman

If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

Napoleon Hill

I think, along with the great joy and excitement of having a child, it seems to be that the common themes are also a lot of doubt and fear and uncertainty about being a parent - and about how you might not live up to those expectations.

Chris Sullivan

If someone confronts you about draining them it could be a "double reverse." They are draining you and accuse you instead of draining them, just to throw you off.

Frederick Lenz

One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

Joyce Maynard

It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.

Sandra Bullock

I love being a parent, and when I'm gone even 2 1/2 days for a tournament, I'm forcing Janna to be a single parent.

Karch Kiraly

We wish the joy of love, the joy of companionship, of being in the company of, in the presence of the person we love, of living a common life with that person, perhaps ultimately the joy of perfect union.

Mortimer Adler

Living in London is funny - sometimes I love it and think it is absolutely amazing, but sometimes it is just exhausting.

Anna Madeley

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

Jane D. Hull

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

Marlee Matlin

Being in love is an exhausting business.

Iris Murdoch

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

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