Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. — Anne Lamott Ego Copy Share Image
I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus. — Anne Lamott Dark Copy Share Image
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life. — Anne Lamott Deals Copy Share Image
“when people don’t have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries.” — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
“You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in… — Anne Lamott Every day Copy Share Image
I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott Mother Copy Share Image
For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return. — Anne Lamott Home Copy Share Image
The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot,… — Anne Lamott April Copy Share Image
If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the… — Anne Lamott Age Copy Share Image
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch… — Anne Lamott Done Copy Share Image
“Rosie had been a little girl with a dead dad, and there was no getting around that or over that. Even a… — Anne Lamott Little girl Copy Share Image
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do… — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
“whatever you come up with needs to suggest a voice that you are not trying to control. If you’re lost in the… — Anne Lamott Directing Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most… — Anne Lamott Ache Copy Share Image
Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted… — Anne Lamott Forget the past Copy Share Image
“I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about… — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or… — Anne Lamott Acting Copy Share Image
“Most of us figure out by a certain age - some of us later than others - that life unspools in cycles,… — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
“For instance, I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite… — Anne Lamott Easier Copy Share Image
“But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at… — Anne Lamott Every day Copy Share Image
“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness… — Anne Lamott Discomfort Copy Share Image
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live… — Anne Lamott Adore Copy Share Image
Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and… — Anne Lamott Air Copy Share Image
![“Rosie had been a little girl with a dead dad, and there was no getting around that or over that. Even a drunk dad, even an asshole, was better than a dead dad, which shouldn't reflect on you but did, and left a cannon hole in your heart. [p. 121]” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e6b/anne-lamott-188_little-girl_rosie-had-been-a-little-girl-with-a-dead_1756634.jpg)
