“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to… — 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’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 was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provided… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“...what good people can do in the face of great sorrow. We help some time pass for those suffering. We sit with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“This family business can be so stressful - difficult, damaged people showing up t spend time with other difficult, damanged people” — 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
My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Some of us have a ragged faith. You cry for a long time, and then after that are defeated and flattened for… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“….but at the same time, they got a miracle. It wasn’t the kind that comes on a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day float. And… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in not enough help,… — 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
