“you're instantly in a bind once you arrive here on earth, of need, self-will, a body and a separate personality, even before… — Anne Lamott Life 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
My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get… — Anne Lamott Airplane Copy Share Image
I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott Mother Copy Share Image
“To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its… — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than… — Anne Lamott Baby 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
Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just… — Anne Lamott Business Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life. — Anne Lamott Enemy Copy Share Image
Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of… — Anne Lamott Belief Copy Share Image
Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others… — Anne Lamott Breeze Copy Share Image
“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about… — Anne Lamott Every day Copy Share Image
“What a mess we are, I thought. But this is usually where any hope of improvement begins, acknowledging the mess. When I… — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. — Anne Lamott Ballast Copy Share Image
There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but… — Anne Lamott Family Copy Share Image
“in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent.” — Anne Lamott Education 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
“If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living… — Anne Lamott Alone Copy Share Image
Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for… — Anne Lamott Gauges Copy Share Image
I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't — Anne Lamott Blow Copy Share Image
Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily. — Anne Lamott Bigs Copy Share Image
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head. — Anne Lamott Afternoon Copy Share Image
When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself… — Anne Lamott Bigs Copy Share Image
