They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense.… — 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 didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When we agree to (or get tricked into) being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“It can be too sad here. We so often lose our way. It is easy to sense and embrace meaning when life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Usually with life, you start wherever you are, and you flail around for a while--” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I don’t know Who—or what—put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Life is like a nice fresh batch of Swiss cheese. Note to self: savor the holes, too, like the spaces between musical… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life… — 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
