100 Thought-Provoking Quotes By Anne Lamott That Will Make You Tick
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Joy is the best makeup.
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
No" is a complete sentence.
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
Expectations are resentments under construction.
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
I am all the ages I've ever been.
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
She said to go ahead and feel the feelings. I did. They felt like shit.
My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
