He doesn't get lost in theory. He's action oriented. He pulls a problem apart piece by piece and is bold with his decisions. And when you're in trouble, the worst path is indecision.


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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist u...
ANNE LAMOTT
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person'...
ANNE FRANK
I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
ANNE SEXTON
Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There w...
ANNE LAMOTT
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people w...
ANNE LAMOTT
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between rea...
ANNE CARSON
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK
But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
ANNE BRONTë
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
ANNE FRANK
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
ANNE FRANK
A quiet conscience makes one strong!
ANNE FRANK
The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith in...
ANNE LAMOTT
As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
E...
ANNE SEXTON
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossibl...
ANNE FRANK
I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
ANNE BISHOP
A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windo...
ANNE RICE
Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surger...
ANNE SEXTON
It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot o...
ANNE LAMOTT
Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
ANNE BISHOP
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw...
ANNE RICE
When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without...
ANNE SPOLLEN
Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...
ANNE BRONTë
Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
ANNE SULLIVAN
... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit ra...
ANNE PERRY
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
ANNE SEXTON
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is ...
ANNE SULLIVAN
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you ...
ANNE FRANK
I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is ...
ANNE FRANK
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...
ANNE RICE
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and...
ANNE RICE
I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, roma...
ANNE FRANK
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what...
ANNE BYRHHE
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection...
ANNE RICE
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other peo...
ANNE FRANK
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
ANNE RIDLER
Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt.
ANNE RICE
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE
What I don't understand about you is this, she said. You hold to your old belief in goodness with a ...
ANNE RICE
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the i...
ANNE FRANK
You can plant a dream.
ANNE CAMPBELL
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
ANNE SEXTON
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
ANNE SEXTON
Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY
O yellow eye,
let me be sick with your heat,
let me be feverish and frowning.
ANNE SEXTON
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK