If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“...I believe that when all si said and done, all you can do is to show up for someone in crisis, which… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I tell my students that the odds of their getting published and of it bringing them financial security, peace of mind, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Some aching beauty comes with huge loss, although maybe not right away, when it would be helpful. Life is a very powerful… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Are you born again?" he asked, as we taxied down the runway. He was rather prim and tense, maybe a little like… — Anne LaMott Copy Share Image
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who… — 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
![“...I believe that when all si said and done, all you can do is to show up for someone in crisis, which seems so inadequate. But then when you do, it can radically change everything. Your there-ness, your stepping into a scared [person's] line of vision, can be life giving, because often everyone…” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/449/anne-lamott-188_crisis_i-believe-that-when-all-si-said-and-done_1091823.png)
