You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. — Anne Lamott Back when Copy Share Image
After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. — Anne Lamott Inner child Copy Share Image
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the… — Anne Lamott Dawn Copy Share Image
“Usually with life, you start wherever you are, and you flail around for a while--” — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
“I don’t know Who—or what—put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some… — Anne Lamott Identity Copy Share Image
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy… — Anne Lamott Bitter Copy Share Image
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” — Anne Lamott Forgiveness Copy Share Image
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe… — Anne Lamott Doubt Copy Share Image
Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with… — Anne Lamott Addiction Copy Share Image
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you. — Anne Lamott Best prayer Copy Share Image
“hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but… — Anne Lamott Appropriate Copy Share Image
“To heal, it seems we have to stand in the middle of the horror, at the foot of the cross, and wait… — Anne Lamott Parenting Copy Share Image
“Disaster usually happens for me when everything I have counted on has stopped working, including all my best skills, intentions, and good… — Anne Lamott Good ideas Copy Share Image
I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath,… — Anne Lamott Action Copy Share Image
I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and… — Anne Lamott Dangerous Copy Share Image
“I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day… — Anne Lamott Humor Copy Share Image
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells… — Anne Lamott Car 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
“We said that we believed that the truth would set us free, and the truth was that the Sunday-school staff was burned… — Anne Lamott Truth Copy Share Image
The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would… — Anne Lamott Bores Copy Share Image
“Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
“[W]hen you're dreaming, you're not the one calling the shots. So it's a reprieve.” — Anne Lamott Dreams Copy Share Image
My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what… — Anne Lamott Decision Copy Share Image
