If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be… — Anne Lamott Castles Copy Share Image
“Try to be a good sport, baby. Sharon feels as bad as you do. It's all right for you to be mad,… — Anne Lamott Feels Copy Share Image
My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around… — Anne Lamott Contentment Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know… — Anne Lamott Cute Copy Share Image
“Maybe it is because music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the… — Anne Lamott Heartbeat 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
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and… — Anne Lamott Attention Copy Share Image
Grief is just so scary… If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like… — Anne Lamott Angry Copy Share Image
“Rosie had to keep her room neat enough so James would not freak out, but not so neat that they could figure… — Anne Lamott Identity Copy Share Image
“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
No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that… — Anne Lamott Bed Copy Share Image
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in… — Anne Lamott Autistic 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
This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems… — Anne Lamott Comfort Copy Share Image
“I don't know why I get jealous, since you don't make money or get any attention for it, but I guess it's… — Anne Lamott Blank page Copy Share Image
“Say to yourself in the kindest possible way, Look, honey, all we’re going to do for now is to write a description… — Anne Lamott Assignment Copy Share Image
I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just… — Anne Lamott Christianity Copy Share Image
“It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his… — Anne Lamott Brown eyes Copy Share Image
“...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could… — Anne Lamott Divine Copy Share Image
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have… — Anne Lamott Capable Copy Share Image
“I felt changed and a little crazy. But though I was still like a stained and slightly buckled jigsaw puzzle with some… — Anne Lamott Changed Copy Share Image
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through,… — Anne Lamott Castles Copy Share Image
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it… — Anne Lamott Grief Copy Share Image
And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what… — Anne Lamott Booze Copy Share Image
Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted… — Anne Lamott Forget the past Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most… — Anne Lamott Ache Copy Share Image
“whatever you come up with needs to suggest a voice that you are not trying to control. If you’re lost in the… — Anne Lamott Directing Copy Share Image
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do… — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
“Rosie had been a little girl with a dead dad, and there was no getting around that or over that. Even a… — Anne Lamott Drunk Copy Share Image
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch… — Anne Lamott Done Copy Share Image
If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the… — Anne Lamott Age Copy Share Image
Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot,… — Anne Lamott April Copy Share Image
There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in… — Anne Lamott Attention Copy Share Image
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing,… — Anne Lamott Lice Copy Share Image
“When we agree to (or get tricked into) being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.… — Anne Lamott Life 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 Block Copy Share Image
“Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was… — Anne Lamott Children 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 Answers Copy Share Image
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