I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools:… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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
Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and… — 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
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in… — 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
![“I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of…” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/22e/anne-lamott-188_childhood_i-don-t-know-where-to-start-one-writing_3064070.jpg)
