But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
ANNE LAMOTTBut grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
ANNE LAMOTTI don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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 LAMOTTSmall is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
ANNE LAMOTTThe reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
ANNE LAMOTTAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
ANNE LAMOTTYou own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
ANNE LAMOTTLighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
ANNE LAMOTTNo is a complete sentence.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
ANNE LAMOTTI’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
ANNE LAMOTTEveryone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
ANNE LAMOTTRule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
ANNE LAMOTTHow do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
ANNE LAMOTTA good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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 LAMOTT