“Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so… — Anne Lamott Life lessons Copy Share Image
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you. — Anne Lamott Differences Copy Share Image
So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense.… — Anne Lamott Angel Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church,… — Anne Lamott Able Copy Share Image
Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give… — Anne Lamott Age Copy Share Image
“I know that sometimes these friends feel that they have been expelled from the ordinary world they lived in before and that… — Anne Lamott Friendship Copy Share Image
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. — Anne Lamott Truth 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 Time Copy Share Image
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not… — Anne Lamott Be kind Copy Share Image
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came… — Anne Lamott Life 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
“This kind of beauty softens you and expands you, which is good, but of course it makes you vulnerable to all sorts… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others. — Anne Lamott Book 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
“Mercy means that we no longer constantly judge everybody’s large and tiny failures, foolish hearts, dubious convictions, and inevitable bad behavior. We… — Anne Lamott Bad behavior Copy Share Image
...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. — Anne Lamott Mask 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
“God loves you crazily, like I love you, Rae said, like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.” — Anne Lamott God love Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow (inadvertently, I’m sure) forgot… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do. — Anne Lamott Ears Copy Share Image
“I smiled back at her. I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott Anger and forgiveness Copy Share Image
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole. — Anne Lamott Failing Copy Share Image
“Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel… — Anne Lamott Dreams Copy Share Image
“My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because… — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image
