My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy… — 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… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“They taught me that being of service, an ally to the lonely and suffering, a big-girl helper to underdogs, was my best… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
“Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean/ they… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we… — 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
