Anne Lamott Quotes
Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference.
When you’re kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back—the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy’s Law.
One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness.
And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.
...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog.
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue
I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.
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.
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.