“I rest in silence and music and long strides, while Sam rests in noise and motion.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When you love something like reading—or drawing or music or nature—it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“This kind of beauty softens you and expands you, which is good, but of course it makes you vulnerable to all sorts… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Maybe it is because music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
“When you love something like reading - or drawing or music or nature - it surrounds you with a sense of connection… — 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
