“do you still believe that I am the Resurrection and the Life? Even when you don’t get what you want? Even when… — Anne Lamott Believe Copy Share Image
I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work. — Anne Lamott Needs Copy Share Image
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world. — Anne Lamott Gift Copy Share Image
For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother. — Anne Lamott Accepting Copy Share Image
I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties. — Anne Lamott Close Copy Share Image
Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are. — Anne Lamott Awakening Copy Share Image
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through. — Anne Lamott Cooperation Copy Share Image
“She said to go ahead and feel the feelings. I did. They felt like shit.” — Anne Lamott Feelings 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
I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own… — Anne Lamott Capture Copy Share Image
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those… — Anne Lamott Community Copy Share Image
Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time… — Anne Lamott Chairs Copy Share Image
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now… — Anne Lamott And love Copy Share Image
I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your… — Anne Lamott Be here now Copy Share Image
“The way I see things, God loves you the same whether you're being elegant or not. It feels much better when you… — Anne Lamott God listens Copy Share Image
“Spring is sweet, the baby season; summer is the teenage season -- too much energy, too much growth and beauty and heat… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and… — Anne Lamott Academically Copy Share Image
Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the… — Anne Lamott Asking Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached… — Anne Lamott Behavior Copy Share Image
“SHORE AND GROUND Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for… — Anne Lamott Fear Copy Share Image
“The reality is that most of us lived our first decades feeling welcome only when certain conditions applied: we felt safe and… — Anne Lamott Getting along Copy Share Image
Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone… — Anne Lamott Air Copy Share Image
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. — Anne Lamott Folk Copy Share Image
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you. — Anne Lamott Caring Copy Share Image
“You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is… — Anne Lamott Overeating Copy Share Image
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. — Anne Lamott Discomfort Copy Share Image
...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind. — Anne Lamott Heal Copy Share Image
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott Anger and forgiveness Copy Share Image
Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts. — Anne Lamott Care Copy Share Image
I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this. — Anne Lamott Drink Copy Share Image
There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it. — Anne Lamott Door Copy Share Image
“These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced." ” — Anne Lamott Danced Copy Share Image
If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem. — Anne Lamott Ifs Copy Share Image
This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing. — Anne Lamott Bodies Copy Share Image
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. — Anne Lamott Child Copy Share Image
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. — Anne Lamott Every step Copy Share Image
If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. — Anne Lamott Door Copy Share Image
