Anne Lamott: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”

“I am all the ages I've ever been.”

“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”

“Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?”

“The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.”

“The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.”

“Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.”

“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.”

“You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.”

“My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable”

“… because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.”

“If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.”

“I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.”

“If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.”

“I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.'
Oh, Rae. Who hasn't”

“We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.”

“… since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.”

“… most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.”