Oh Garrison Keillor..you so smart...

So, after being reminded this afternoon how much I enjoyed the movie "A Prairie Home Companion," and how much I love to hear what Garrison Keillor usually has to say, I decided to check out the website for the radio show. He has a feature called "post to the host" or something to that effect, which is basically an online question and answer forum for fans of the show to ask Garrison something. Now it sounds boring, but he ends up making his replies so insightful and wise that it's hard to not sit and read archives of this feature for hours. So, I've decided to dedicate this post to Garrison Keillor quotes that I liked.

"My advice is: be patient and make a plan and keep searching for your truest self. Don't become an indentured servant. That's somebody who hates work and so he spends his money, and borrows more, in order to alleviate his suffering, thereby becoming a prisoner of the job.....
....There is no better way to find out who you are than to sit down and write about what's happening to you and what you think."

"Children are durable and don't necessarily wilt under adversity, just as our own children don't necessarily thrive under luxury and comfort."

"Your upbringing was MEANT to hamper your life, in the sense of directing you in a certain way and making you reluctant to go in other ways. Now you're on your own, making your own choices, but still with those voices in your head. Don't worry about it. Take the truth wherever you find it, including the past, and move forward bravely, and keep in mind that God loves you."

"I believe that faith and prayer can accomplish almost anything, but not within the church. Change within the church takes cutthroat politics and masterful passive-aggressive strategy. Don't go there."