Quotes by Anne Lamott

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if...

“ 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. “

-Anne Lamott-

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.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

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.

The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth can be another profound truth.

I have actually come to believe that a person being herself is beautiful - that contentment and acceptance and freedom are beautiful.

The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped, thank God.

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

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

Help, thanks, wow.

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming anymore.

We can change. People say we can't, but we do when the the stakes or the pain is high enough.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy

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.

Mothering has to be learned.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

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