You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“My mind kept thinking its harsh thinky thoughts, but I would distract myself from them gently and say, 'Those are not the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“We said that we believed that the truth would set us free, and the truth was that the Sunday-school staff was burned… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by… — 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
