Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for... - Anne Lamott
"Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."
"Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."
"Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."
"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."
"Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother."
"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."
"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."