Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

by Anne Lamott

We can change. People say we can’t, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change. It offers more of itself when we agree to give up our busyness.

Ram Dass’s line that when all is said and done, we are all just walking each other home.

Your inside person does not have an age. It is all the ages you have ever been and the age you are at this very moment.

John Lennon said, “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end,”