“She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming anymore. [p. 227]” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups came in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
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