I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a… — 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
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that… — 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 don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“For instance, I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim… — 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
