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
“Sam was alternately distant and clingy and mean, because I am the primary person he banks on and bangs on. I stayed… — Anne Lamott 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
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your… — Anne Lamott Born 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
I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to… — Anne Lamott Change 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 Copy Share Image
I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible… — Anne Lamott Boundless Copy Share Image
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter:… — Anne Lamott Arcs Copy Share Image
I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and… — Anne Lamott Accepted Copy Share Image
The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness. — Anne Lamott Holiness 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
The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that… — Anne Lamott Dedication Copy Share Image
He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with… — Anne Lamott Baptists 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
“Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational.” — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples… — Anne Lamott Add Copy Share Image
I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull-… — Anne Lamott Annoying 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 Attempting Copy Share Image
I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at… — Anne Lamott Become 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
“What you're looking for is already inside you..You can't buy it, lease it, rent it, date it, or apply for it. The… — Anne Lamott Financial security Copy Share Image
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