Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
ANNE LAMOTTLighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
ANNE LAMOTTAnd she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
ANNE LAMOTTOr you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
ANNE LAMOTTWhat fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
ANNE LAMOTTYou can either practice being right or practice being kind.
ANNE LAMOTTDon’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
ANNE LAMOTTJoy is the best makeup.
ANNE LAMOTTI’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
ANNE LAMOTTI’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
ANNE LAMOTTI think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTTLove is so much bigger than our ignorance.
ANNE LAMOTTChurches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTTHope 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.
ANNE LAMOTTHere are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
ANNE LAMOTTYou can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
ANNE LAMOTTSo a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT