Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking. — Anne Lamott Feels Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. — Anne Lamott Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck. — Anne Lamott Breathing 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
... 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 know a person with a Ph.D. who goes to a church based on Star Wars: May the force be with you.” — Anne Lamott Person 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
“By the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.” — Anne Lamott Deteriorating Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life. — Anne Lamott Enemy Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness and mercy mean that, bit by bit, you begin to outshine the resentment.” — Anne Lamott Anger 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
This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough,… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who… — Anne Lamott Begin Copy Share Image
This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and… — Anne Lamott Awakening Copy Share Image
My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think… — Anne Lamott Character Copy Share Image
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline… But also every single… — Anne Lamott Break Copy Share Image
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope… — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the… — Anne Lamott Anxiety 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 Believe 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
“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
“I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Awesome Copy Share Image
“No one has expressed it better than a great novelist I heard once on a talk show who said something like "You… — Anne Lamott Novelist Copy Share Image
“...I believe that when all si said and done, all you can do is to show up for someone in crisis, which… — Anne Lamott Crisis 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
“These lines of D.H. Lawrence are taped to the wall of my office: "What is the knocking? What is the knocking at… — Anne Lamott Angel Copy Share Image
“When we think we can do it all ourselves--fix, save, buy, or date a nice solution--it's hopeless. We're going to screw things… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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