“Everything slows down when we listen and stop trying to fix the unfixable.” — Anne Lamott Communication Copy Share Image
I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short. — Anne Lamott Carry Copy Share Image
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind. — Anne Lamott Be kind Copy Share Image
In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy. — Anne Lamott Energy Copy Share Image
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.” — Anne Lamott Excellence Copy Share Image
“Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.” — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
“The great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote, “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. / I awoke and saw that life… — Anne Lamott Joy 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 Absent Copy Share Image
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. — Anne Lamott Flailing Copy Share Image
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief,… — Anne Lamott Alone time Copy Share Image
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about… — Anne Lamott Boxes Copy Share Image
“To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking… — Anne Lamott Business 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
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
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to… — Anne Lamott Time Copy Share Image
“The way I see things, God loves you the same whether you're being elegant or not. It feels much better when you… — Anne Lamott God listens Copy Share Image
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard… — Anne Lamott Afternoon Copy Share Image
“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provided… — Anne Lamott Age 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
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at… — Anne Lamott Annoying Copy Share Image
It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them… — Anne Lamott Beautiful Copy Share Image
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of… — Anne Lamott Arithmetic Copy Share Image
And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page… — Anne Lamott Bed Copy Share Image
“What I've learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in… — Anne Lamott Voices in my head Copy Share Image
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is… — Anne Lamott Behinds Copy Share Image
“The best way to get quiet, other than the combination of extensive therapy, Prozac, and a lobotomy, is first to notice that… — Anne Lamott Mental health Copy Share Image
“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
“This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things… — Anne Lamott Goals Copy Share Image
“Sue had been told that tumors had developed in her liver and lungs. She had been in a deep depression for a… — Anne Lamott Christianity Copy Share Image
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that… — Anne Lamott Childhood Copy Share Image
![“The best way to get quiet, other than the combination of extensive therapy, Prozac, and a lobotomy, is first to notice that the station is on. KFKD [K-Fucked] is on every single morning when I sit down at my desk. So I sit for a moment and then say a small prayer--please help me get out of the way…” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bbf/anne-lamott-188_mental-health_the-best-way-to-get-quiet-other-than-the_539826.jpg)
