I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced." ” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. — Anne Lamott Child Copy Share Image
This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is… — Anne Lamott Overeating Copy Share Image
“It's always the same old problem: how to find ourselves in the great yammering of ego and tragedy and discomfort and obsession… — Anne Lamott Obsession Copy Share Image
“Oh, but my stomach, she is like a waterbed covered in flannel. When I lie on my side in bed, my stomach… — Anne Lamott Humor Copy Share Image
“So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such… — Anne Lamott Child Copy Share Image
That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk… — Anne Lamott Care Copy Share Image
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing:… — Anne Lamott Day Copy Share Image
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our… — Anne Lamott Candle Copy Share Image
“Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“He said that when he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those car seats that have steering wheels,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached… — Anne Lamott Behavior Copy Share Image
“SHORE AND GROUND Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for… — Anne Lamott Fear 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 Books Copy Share Image
“The reality is that most of us lived our first decades feeling welcome only when certain conditions applied: we felt safe and… — Anne Lamott Getting along Copy Share Image
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you. — Anne Lamott Caring Copy Share Image
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. — Anne Lamott Discomfort Copy Share Image
...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott Anger and forgiveness 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 Children Copy Share Image
I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure… — Anne Lamott Agnostic Copy Share Image
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and… — Anne Lamott Ashamed Copy Share Image
“Her message was always the same: God loved the world, all evidence to the contrary, and we must not give up on… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
