Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. — Anne Lamott Decrease Copy Share Image
I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects. — Anne Lamott Believe Copy Share Image
If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience. — Anne Lamott Audience Copy Share Image
“Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?” — Anne Lamott Seeing Copy Share Image
The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth… — Anne Lamott Baptized Copy Share Image
“hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” — Anne Lamott Desperate Copy Share Image
You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here,… — Anne Lamott Goodreads Copy Share Image
I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always… — Anne Lamott Meditation Copy Share Image
The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the… — Anne Lamott Adventure 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 Life 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 Beings Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face,… — Anne Lamott Brother Copy Share Image
I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and… — Anne Lamott Christian Copy Share Image
“Like the Buddha and Jesus, who knew they couldn’t control our lives, but could infuse lives with their selves, we have been… — Anne Lamott Buddha Copy Share Image
The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
“I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact,… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
“Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out… — Anne Lamott Book Copy Share Image
“I had to grip myself by the wrist not to pitch one good idea after another at them. . . . I… — Anne Lamott Obstacle Copy Share Image
I had NO interest in being a theologian, especially not a Christian, as I had been raised by progressive atheists. We bowed… — Anne Lamott Atheist Copy Share Image
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a… — Anne Lamott Animation Copy Share Image
And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page… — Anne Lamott Bed Copy Share Image
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard… — Anne Lamott Afternoon 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 Animation Copy Share Image
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must… — Anne Lamott Emotion Copy Share Image
“But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?” — Anne Lamott Education Copy Share Image
The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness. — Anne Lamott Comedy 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 Faith Copy Share Image
It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out… — Anne Lamott Babysitting Copy Share Image
“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us… — Anne Lamott Grace Copy Share Image
“The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped; thank God.” — Anne Lamott Exhaustion Copy Share Image
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 Book Copy Share Image
I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just… — Anne Lamott Believe Copy Share Image
“Kindness toward others and radical kindness to ourselves buy us a shot at a warm and generous heart, which is the greatest… — Anne Lamott Generous heart Copy Share Image
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I… — Anne Lamott Calling Copy Share Image
“Children should not have treacherous diseases or be afraid. This should be one rule we all agree on.” — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it. — Anne Lamott Atheist Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one. — Anne Lamott Opinion Copy Share Image
“I knew to put on my favorite earrings. Sometimes you start with the outside and you get it right. You tend to… — Anne Lamott Earrings Copy Share Image
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker. — Anne Lamott Altered Copy Share Image
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe. — Anne Lamott Awe Copy Share Image
