What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you. — Anne Lamott Difference Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. — Anne Lamott Forgiveness Copy Share Image
You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you. — Anne Lamott Child Copy Share Image
“We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to… — 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
“God loves you crazily, like I love you, Rae said, like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in. — Anne Lamott Inspirational Copy Share Image
...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from… — Anne Lamott Dead mother Copy Share Image
Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into… — Anne Lamott Animal 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 Empathy Copy Share Image
Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate straits. Mercy is not deserved. It involves absolving the… — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image
“How are we going to get through this craziness?' I asked. There was silence for a moment. 'Left foot, right foot, left… — Anne Lamott Silence Copy Share Image
“The review in the newspaper the next day was not very good. But by then I'd figured out the gift of failure,… — Anne Lamott Failure Copy Share Image
Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't… — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel… — Anne Lamott Dreams Copy Share Image
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I… — Anne Lamott Book 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 Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die.… — Anne Lamott Bank account Copy Share Image
But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open. — Anne Lamott Singing Copy Share Image
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