“What you're looking for is already inside you. You've heard this before, but the holy thing inside you really is that which… — Anne Lamott Financial security Copy Share Image
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again… — Anne Lamott Cold Copy Share Image
“But let’s say we believe that mercy and forgiveness are in fact foundational, innate, what we are grown from and can build… — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott Alive Copy Share Image
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you… — Anne Lamott Clarity Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and… — Anne Lamott Believe Copy Share Image
This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing. — Anne Lamott Body Copy Share Image
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who… — Anne Lamott Church Copy Share Image
My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention… — Anne Lamott Attention 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
“What can we say beyond Wow, in the presence of glorious art, in music so magnificent that it can't have originated solely… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
“When you love something like reading—or drawing or music or nature—it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great.” — Anne Lamott Love Copy Share Image
Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important… — Anne Lamott Ask me Copy Share Image
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational… — Anne Lamott Assuming Copy Share Image
“I saw a button pin once that said: “I’m not tense. I’m just very, very alert.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human… — Anne Lamott Being responsible Copy Share Image
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who… — Anne Lamott Born Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't… — Anne Lamott Boat Copy Share Image
If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to… — Anne Lamott Awareness Copy Share Image
Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or… — Anne Lamott Bigs Copy Share Image
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not… — Anne Lamott Care Copy Share Image
“These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame,… — Anne Lamott Blame Copy Share Image
“This is our goal as writers, I think: to help others have this sense of wonder, of seeing things anew, things that… — Anne Lamott Goals Copy Share Image
