People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we… — Anne Lamott Helping Copy Share Image
When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. — Anne Lamott Agree Copy Share Image
I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his… — Anne Lamott Bus Copy Share Image
... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66] — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. — Anne Lamott Being a parent Copy Share Image
...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. — Anne Lamott Mask Copy Share Image
I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong. — Anne Lamott Afraid Copy Share Image
I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven. — Anne Lamott Alone time Copy Share Image
I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival.… — Anne Lamott Abracadabra Copy Share Image
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's… — Anne Lamott Believe 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 Alive Copy Share Image
The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery… — Anne Lamott Accepting Copy Share Image
I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you… — Anne Lamott Babies Copy Share Image
“What can we say beyond Wow, in the presence of glorious art, in music so magnificent that it can't have originated solely… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
“She wears latex bicycle shorts nearly every day, and I will tell you why: because she can. I consider it an act… — Anne Lamott Art work Copy Share Image
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose… — Anne Lamott Alive Copy Share Image
Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No… — Anne Lamott Association Copy Share Image
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered… — Anne Lamott Certainty Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why… — Anne Lamott Amazing friend Copy Share Image
“Your day’s work might turn out to have been a mess. So what? Vonnegut said, “When I write, I feel like an… — Anne Lamott Failure 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 Break your heart 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 Grief Copy Share Image
“Peg came over with dinner tonight and told me about this dumb schmaltzy poem she heard someone read at an AA meeting.… — Anne Lamott Aa meeting Copy Share Image
“This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things… — Anne Lamott Goals Copy Share Image