All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“My favorite moment in Jeanne Moreau's latest movie--a comedy called The Summer House --takes place in a kitchen, when she proclaims that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I… — 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 Image
It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it. — Anne Lamott 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 all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott 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 begins in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
