I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain. — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
“Dreadlocks make people wonder if you’re trying to be rebellious.” — Anne Lamott Dreadlocks Copy Share Image
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. — Anne Lamott Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“This is how we make important changes-- barely, poorly, slowly.” — Anne Lamott Change Copy Share Image
Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up. — Anne Lamott Joy Copy Share Image
“It is funny how no one seems to want my always excellent advice.” — Anne Lamott Advice Copy Share Image
“We think that if our values aren’t the correct ones, we would have other ones, which would then be the correct ones.” — Anne Lamott Values Copy Share Image
I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God. — Anne Lamott Bible Copy Share Image
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. — Anne Lamott Father Copy Share Image
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. — Anne Lamott Apples Copy Share Image
if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your… — Anne Lamott Certainty Copy Share Image
Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
“His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold… — Anne Lamott Blessing Copy Share Image
If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Say it's true: It is what it is. We're social, tribal, musical animals, walking percussion instruments. Most of us do the best… — Anne Lamott Gratitude Copy Share Image
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“...I had to learn new skills. One was to no longer pretend not to see what was going on. ... I was… — Anne Lamott New skills Copy Share Image
“It made no sense that Abraham could head for the mountain in Moriah still believing in God's goodness. It made no sense… — Anne Lamott Abraham Copy Share Image
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is… — Anne Lamott Behavior Copy Share Image
“Sometimes - oh, just once in a blue moon-I resist being receptive to God's generosity, because I'm busy with a project and… — Anne Lamott Generosity Copy Share Image
“While it is hard to fathom who we are and how we are to live when public chaos shatters our routine, the… — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given to each syllable of life as life… — Anne Lamott Focus Copy Share Image
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town — Anne Lamott Circus Copy Share Image
... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65] — Anne Lamott Being human Copy Share Image
“I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.” — Anne Lamott Greek tragedy Copy Share Image
“I know a person with a Ph.D. who goes to a church based on Star Wars: May the force be with you.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people… — Anne Lamott God Copy Share Image
“It was never meant to be permanent. You must have known the tide would come back in.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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