Anne Lamott: Trending quotes

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”

“Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

“… the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”

“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.”

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

“We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.”

“Joy is the best makeup.”

“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.”

“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”

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

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”

“A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.”

“I 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.”

“You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town”

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”

“When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.”

“No" is a complete sentence.”

“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare…”

“Expectations are resentments under construction.”