“do you still believe that I am the Resurrection and the Life? Even when you don’t get what you want? Even when… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Life is change and what we need is muscle, flexibility, and awareness.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Are you born again?" he asked, as we taxied down the runway. He was rather prim and tense, maybe a little like… — Anne LaMott Copy Share Image
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by… — 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
