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.
ANNE LAMOTT
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
-
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.
ANNE LAMOTT -
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
ANNE LAMOTT -
I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Expectations are resentments under construction.
ANNE LAMOTT -
And 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 LAMOTT -
A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
ANNE LAMOTT -
I’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 LAMOTT -
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Or 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 LAMOTT -
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTT -
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTT -
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT -
The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
ANNE LAMOTT