When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life. — Anne Lamott 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
There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“This family business can be so stressful - difficult, damaged people showing up t spend time with other difficult, damanged people” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull-… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“They ask that we pray for their families, and for kinder leaders, and for the homeless, and people with AIDS, and people… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Jesus is busy with his own stuff, and is not going to get involved in your little tug-of-war. Plus, don't forget, he… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Everyone, from almost every tradition, agrees on five things. Rule 1: We are all family. Rule 2: You reap exactly what you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“During Advent, we have to sit in our own anxiety and funkiness long enough to know what a Promised Land would be… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I knew that the world was a harsh place, and my family was a mess, and even though I danced as fast… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups came in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
