I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's… — Anne Lamott Aunt Copy Share Image
When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in… — Anne Lamott Communication Copy Share Image
Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come… — Anne Lamott Being real Copy Share Image
“Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean/ they… — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
“But it is fantasy to think that successful writers do not have these bored, defeated hours, these hours of deep insecurity when… — Anne Lamott Success Copy Share Image
One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and… — Anne Lamott Excuse Copy Share Image
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of… — Anne Lamott Behave Copy Share Image
“Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate straits. Mercy is not deserved. It involves absolving the… — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image
“Maybe what you care most passionately about are fasting and high colonics--cappuccino enemas, say. This is fine, but we do not want… — Anne Lamott 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
“Look, if you don't have a bad attitude and lots of things wrong with you, no serious person is going to be… — Anne Lamott Bad attitude Copy Share Image
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t… — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the… — Anne Lamott Acceptance Copy Share Image
I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are… — Anne Lamott Beam 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
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some… — Anne Lamott Agents Copy Share Image
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and… — Anne Lamott Age Copy Share Image
“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching… — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to… — Anne Lamott Feels Copy Share Image
You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind… — Anne Lamott Accounts Copy Share Image
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered… — Anne Lamott Certainty Copy Share Image
“We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you,… — Anne Lamott Busy person Copy Share Image
That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk… — Anne Lamott Care Copy Share Image
