I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do. — 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
Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
“Hallelujah that in spite of it all, there is love, there is singing, nature, laughing, mercy.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Hope is not about proving anything. Its about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
“Anything that leaves you more fearful, more isolated, more disconnected from other people, more full of judgment or self-hatred, is not of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up.… — 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
You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without… — Anne Lamott 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 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
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
