Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we… — Anne Lamott Amazing things Copy Share Image
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I… — Anne Lamott Book Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years… — Anne Lamott Achievement Copy Share Image
A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle,… — Anne Lamott Angel Copy Share Image
At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get… — Anne Lamott Anxiety 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
“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
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life,… — Anne Lamott Belief Copy Share Image
“My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Education Copy Share Image
“The truth is that your spirits don't rise until you get way down.” — Anne Lamott Rise Copy Share Image
“If you want to change the way you feel about people, you have to change the way you treat them.” — Anne Lamott Change Copy Share Image
“But when someone enters that valley with you, that mud, it somehow saves you again.” — Anne Lamott Saves Copy Share Image
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life. — Anne Lamott Cheer Copy Share Image
“There is cracks, cracks, in everything, that's how the light gets in.' I had cracks but not the hope.” — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks. — Anne Lamott Air Copy Share Image
I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God. — Anne Lamott Doomed Copy Share Image
“Honey,"..."you'll never draw another calm breath as long as you live. That blissful amniotic unconcerned state of people without children is a… — Anne Lamott Breath Copy Share Image
“I carry a secret sense of accomplishment around with me, like a radium pack implanted near my heart that now leaches a… — Anne Lamott Sense of accomplishment Copy Share Image
What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of… — Anne Lamott Action Copy Share Image
[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer… — Anne Lamott Astute Copy Share Image
Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea… — Anne Lamott Dangerous Copy Share Image
I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way.… — Anne Lamott Abyss Copy Share Image
“San Quentin’s is the safest beach in the world. We’re not talking about lifeguards here who might yell at someone who’s being… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret… — Anne Lamott Being a parent Copy Share Image
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks… — Anne Lamott Artist Copy Share Image
Having a child as a single mother was a crucible - maybe this is true for all parents. I got rid of… — Anne Lamott Airplane Copy Share Image
“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness… — Anne Lamott Certainty Copy Share Image
I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who… — Anne Lamott Accepted Copy Share Image
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Found Copy Share Image
“Now, Muriel Spark is said to have felt that she was taking dictation from God every morning-- sitting there, one supposes, plugged… — Anne Lamott Bad thing Copy Share Image
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and… — Anne Lamott Childhood Copy Share Image
“When you love something like reading - or drawing or music or nature - it surrounds you with a sense of connection… — Anne Lamott Connection Copy Share Image
“About novel Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott. Q: What does the title "Imperfect Birds" mean? It's a line from a poem by… — Anne Lamott Poetry Copy Share Image
“when people don’t have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries.” — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. — Anne Lamott Ego Copy Share Image
No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. — Anne Lamott Appropriate Copy Share Image
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