“Dreadlocks make people wonder if you’re trying to be rebellious.” — Anne Lamott Dreadlocks Copy Share Image
I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain. — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. — Anne Lamott Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“It is funny how no one seems to want my always excellent advice.” — Anne Lamott Advice Copy Share Image
Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up. — Anne Lamott Joy 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 Dies 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 Bladder Copy Share Image
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. — Anne Lamott Deals 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 Honestly 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 Buttons 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 God love Copy Share Image
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. — Anne Lamott Point 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
We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but… — Anne Lamott Bits Copy Share Image
I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the… — Anne Lamott Activist Copy Share Image
The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you… — Anne Lamott Differences Copy Share Image
I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever… — Anne Lamott Becoming Copy Share Image
“This is where I liked to be when I was hangover or coming down off a cocaine binge, here in the dust… — Anne Lamott Cocaine Copy Share Image
“What a mess we are, I thought. But this is usually where any hope of improvement begins, acknowledging the mess. When I… — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin… — Anne Lamott Alcohol Copy Share Image
No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another… — Anne Lamott Breath Copy Share Image
Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their… — Anne Lamott Breathing Copy Share Image
I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I… — Anne Lamott Disappointing Copy Share Image
I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on… — Anne Lamott Adorable Copy Share Image
All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as… — Anne Lamott Alone time Copy Share Image
“Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don’t worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about… — Anne Lamott Moral obligation Copy Share Image
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read… — Anne Lamott Being positive Copy Share Image
“I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing?… — Anne Lamott Help others Copy Share Image
The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate… — Anne Lamott Acceptance Copy Share Image
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