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
“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
Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003 — Anne Lamott April Copy Share Image
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68) — Anne Lamott Bereavement Copy Share Image
“I rest in silence and music and long strides, while Sam rests in noise and motion.” — Anne Lamott Music Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. — Anne Lamott Artist Copy Share Image
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have… — Anne Lamott People Copy Share Image
Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. — Anne Lamott Broken Copy Share Image
“Oh, but my stomach, she is like a waterbed covered in flannel. When I lie on my side in bed, my stomach… — Anne Lamott Humor Copy Share Image
“So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such… — Anne Lamott Child Copy Share Image
“Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to… — Anne Lamott Chosen Copy Share Image
Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels… — Anne Lamott Adviser Copy Share Image
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our… — Anne Lamott Candle Copy Share Image
Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a… — Anne Lamott Bigs Copy Share Image
“You stop pretending life is such fin or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best… — Anne Lamott Fall in love Copy Share Image
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope… — Anne Lamott Compelled Copy Share Image
“But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at… — Anne Lamott Creatively Copy Share Image
“For instance, I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite… — Anne Lamott Easier Copy Share Image
“Most of us figure out by a certain age - some of us later than others - that life unspools in cycles,… — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or… — Anne Lamott Acting Copy Share Image
“I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about… — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
“. . . I bet I'm beginning to make some parents nervous - here I am, bragging of being a dropout, and… — Anne Lamott Busy person Copy Share Image
They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down… — Anne Lamott Believe Copy Share Image
You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you… — Anne Lamott Auntie Copy Share Image
It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying. — Anne Lamott Child Copy Share Image
“When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God "God": "Because when you see something so great,… — Anne Lamott Explained Copy Share Image
If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it. — Anne Lamott Fulfillment Copy Share Image
Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not… — Anne Lamott Bookstores Copy Share Image
“First I showered off that horrible butt smell you get from being on an airplane. [p. 257]” — Anne Lamott Smell Copy Share Image
E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start… — Anne Lamott Book Copy Share Image
“The pain does grow less acute, but the insidious palace lie that we will get over crushing losses means that our emotional… — Anne Lamott Losses 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
Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with… — Anne Lamott About Copy Share Image
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells… — Anne Lamott Car Copy Share Image
“He had the time to hear, like a person who believed there was someone alive beneath the rubble of herself, who heard… — Anne Lamott Rubble Copy Share Image
The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being… — Anne Lamott Anxiety Copy Share Image
For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights,… — Anne Lamott Arms Copy Share Image
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about… — Anne Lamott Boxes Copy Share Image
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A… — Anne Lamott Best prayer Copy Share Image
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief,… — Anne Lamott Alone time Copy Share Image
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