You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better. —Anne Lamott Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott
Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. –attributed to Claudia Ghandi
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”— Mahatma Gandhi
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”— Albert Camus
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.“— Mark Twain
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”— Bil Keane
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”— André Gide
