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
We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The hard silence between frustrated people always feels cluttered. But holy silence is spacious and inviting. You can drink it down. We… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I rest in silence and music and long strides, while Sam rests in noise and motion.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“During congregational silences, in meditation rooms or halls, in prison cells and meeting rooms, in silent confession at church, all these screwed-up… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“How are we going to get through this craziness?' I asked. There was silence for a moment. 'Left foot, right foot, left… — 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
