“Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?” — Anne Lamott Forgiveness Copy Share Image
I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and… — Anne Lamott Child Copy Share Image
“I decided to go to the beach at San Quentin, and practice living as if today was one of the precious few… — Anne Lamott Beach Copy Share Image
I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been… — Anne Lamott Aries Copy Share Image
There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time. — Anne Lamott Comeback Copy Share Image
I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to… — Anne Lamott Divine Copy Share Image
“If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere...… — Anne Lamott Attention Copy Share Image
“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching… — Anne Lamott Emptiness Copy Share Image
“What if you wake up at sixty and realize that you forgot to wake up, and you never became the person you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“You must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward… — Anne Lamott Inspirational quotes Copy Share Image
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to… — Anne Lamott Time Copy Share Image
“Imagining God can be so different from wishful thinking, if your spiritual experiences change your behavior over time. Have you become more… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The way I see things, God loves you the same whether you're being elegant or not. It feels much better when you… — Anne Lamott God listens Copy Share Image
“Help. We can be freed from a damaging insistence on forward thrust, from a commitment to running wildly down a convenient path… — Anne Lamott Praying Copy Share Image
So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Spring is sweet, the baby season; summer is the teenage season -- too much energy, too much growth and beauty and heat… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I had NO interest in being a theologian, especially not a Christian, as I had been raised by progressive atheists. We bowed… — Anne Lamott Atheist Copy Share Image
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“[W]hen you're dreaming, you're not the one calling the shots. So it's a reprieve.” — Anne Lamott Dream Copy Share Image
“Ram Dass, who described himself as a Hin-Jew, said that ultimately we’re all just walking each other home. I love that. I… — Anne Lamott Israel Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one. — Anne Lamott Opinion Copy Share Image
“I knew to put on my favorite earrings. Sometimes you start with the outside and you get it right. You tend to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it. — Anne Lamott Atheist Copy Share Image
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe. — Anne Lamott Awe Copy Share Image
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Wonder takes our breath away, and makes room for new breath. That’s why they call it breathtaking.” — Anne Lamott Breath Copy Share Image
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. — Anne Lamott Good writing Copy Share Image
Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not… — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness. — Anne Lamott Comedy Copy Share Image
“But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out… — Anne Lamott Babysitting Copy Share Image
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