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
“I was frozen like in a dream when your feet weigh fifty pounds each and the danger is almost upon you.” — Anne Lamott Danger 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
“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
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us,… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
“I smiled back at her. I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make… — Anne Lamott Smiled 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
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.… — Anne Lamott Books 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
“Even as we improved as teachers and as students, the children continued to have raging impulse-control problems; the very thing that made… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have… — Anne Lamott Cosmic 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
When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope.… — Anne Lamott Crazy 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
You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags.… — Anne Lamott Next Copy Share Image
If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get… — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't. — Anne Lamott Character Copy Share Image
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life… — Anne Lamott Cleaning Copy Share Image
My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself. — Anne Lamott Best teacher Copy Share Image
The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different. — Anne Lamott Different 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 Connection Copy Share Image
I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure… — Anne Lamott Agnostic Copy Share Image
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. — Anne Lamott Point Copy Share Image
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
