Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let… — Anne Lamott Asking Copy Share Image
“...that grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish.” — Anne Lamott Nature of Beauty Copy Share Image
“Help. We can be freed from a damaging insistence on forward thrust, from a commitment to running wildly down a convenient path… — Anne Lamott Running wild Copy Share Image
“Say to yourself in the kindest possible way, Look, honey, all we’re going to do for now is to write a description… — Anne Lamott First time Copy Share Image
It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back. — Anne Lamott Able Copy Share Image
“I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from… — Anne Lamott Dead mother Copy Share Image
...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. — Anne Lamott Connections Copy Share Image
I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and… — Anne Lamott Affection Copy Share Image
“By the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. You need to trust yourself,… — Anne Lamott Confidence 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 Aries Copy Share Image
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. — Anne Lamott Alone Copy Share Image
“Maybe it is because music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the… — Anne Lamott Music Copy Share Image
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen. — Anne Lamott Buckles 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 Magic wand Copy Share Image
I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He… — Anne Lamott Asking Copy Share Image
There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment… — Anne Lamott Achieve Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know… — Anne Lamott Cute 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 Abracadabra Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness and mercy mean that, bit by bit, you begin to outshine the resentment.” — Anne Lamott Anger Copy Share Image
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin… — Anne Lamott Alcohol Copy Share Image
