Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity. — Anne Lamott Animal Copy Share Image
Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening. — Anne Lamott Awakening Copy Share Image
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again… — Anne Lamott Cold Copy Share Image
If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who… — Anne Lamott Being crazy Copy Share Image
I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've… — Anne Lamott Aging Copy Share Image
The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the… — Anne Lamott Adventure Copy Share Image
This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face,… — Anne Lamott Brother Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life,… — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
“Like the Buddha and Jesus, who knew they couldn’t control our lives, but could infuse lives with their selves, we have been… — Anne Lamott Buddha Copy Share Image
I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and… — Anne Lamott Christian Copy Share Image
But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Learning to read gave us a true oasis, salvation, in the same way that coming to know Jesus or the Buddha might… — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks… — Anne Lamott Artist Copy Share Image
I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go… — Anne Lamott Borders Copy Share Image
“I have these secret pangs of shame about being single, like I wasn't good enough to get a husband. Rita reminded me… — Anne Lamott Good enough Copy Share Image
“Everyone, from almost every tradition, agrees on five things. Rule 1: We are all family. Rule 2: You reap exactly what you… — Anne Lamott Family Copy Share Image
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return. — Anne Lamott Home Copy Share Image
The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
“when people don’t have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries.” — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. — Anne Lamott Ego Copy Share Image
I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus. — Anne Lamott Comedy Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience. — Anne Lamott Audience Copy Share Image
“hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” — Anne Lamott Desperate Copy Share Image
The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always… — Anne Lamott Meditation Copy Share Image
You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that… — Anne Lamott Dedication Copy Share Image
![“I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go find some mothers on the streets of San Raphael and give them tens and twenties and mail off another $50 to Doctors Without Borders to use for the refugees in Kosovo. Because I know that…” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0c7/anne-lamott-188_borders_i-know-that-if-i-feel-any-deprivation-or_1166824.jpg)
