Anne Lamott

Joy is the best makeup.

— Anne Lamott

Hope begins in the dark.

— Anne Lamott

Write as if your parents are dead.

— Anne Lamott

It's a great time to be alive.

— Anne Lamott

“There's freedom in hitting bottom”

— Anne Lamott

I hate the summer.

— Anne Lamott

What an incredible drug fear is.

— Anne Lamott

“This is parenting on steroids.”

— Anne Lamott

“in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent.”

— Anne Lamott

Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

— Anne Lamott

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

— Anne Lamott

Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.

— Anne Lamott

You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

— Anne Lamott

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

— Anne Lamott

“She wants to have hiked; I want to have had dessert.”

— Anne Lamott

Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

— Anne Lamott

“The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped; thank God.”

— Anne Lamott

The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that…

— Anne Lamott

“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us…

— Anne Lamott

“Kindness toward others and radical kindness to ourselves buy us a shot at a warm and generous heart, which is the greatest…

— Anne Lamott

I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just…

— Anne Lamott

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I…

— Anne Lamott

“Children should not have treacherous diseases or be afraid. This should be one rule we all agree on.”

— Anne Lamott

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

— Anne Lamott

The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in…

— Anne Lamott

You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really…

— Anne Lamott

“Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of…

— Anne Lamott

To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its…

— Anne Lamott

I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me…

— Anne Lamott

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can…

— Anne Lamott

“Mercy means compassion, empathy, a heart for someone’s troubles. It’s not something you do – it is something in you, accessed, revealed,…

— Anne Lamott

“My three prayers are variations on Help, Thanks, Wow. That's all I'll ever need, besides the silence, the pain, and the pause…

— Anne Lamott

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that…

— Anne Lamott

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar,…

— Anne Lamott

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

“Writers show us the glades we'd missed, the trickling voices of streams, the eyes of a barn owl watching us. A writer…

— Anne Lamott

“I have become more successful in my forties, but that pales in comparison with the other gifts of my current decade --…

— Anne Lamott

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

Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is…

— Anne Lamott

I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition…

— Anne Lamott