It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you. — Anne Lamott Child Copy Share Image
“This family business can be so stressful - difficult, damaged people showing up t spend time with other difficult, damanged people” — Anne Lamott End time Copy Share Image
...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable… — Anne Lamott Bathing Copy Share Image
“We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. — Anne Lamott Agree Copy Share Image
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we… — Anne Lamott Helping Copy Share Image
I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his… — Anne Lamott Bus Copy Share Image
... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66] — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this… — Anne Lamott Boat Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the… — Anne Lamott Alive Copy Share Image
“There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be… — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than… — Anne Lamott Baby 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
“I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied… — Anne Lamott Discover Born 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 Empathy Copy Share Image
“But what if the great secret insider-trading truth is that you don't ever get over the biggest losses in your life? Is… — Anne Lamott Bad news Copy Share Image
It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start… — Anne Lamott Believe Copy Share Image
“The review in the newspaper the next day was not very good. But by then I'd figured out the gift of failure,… — Anne Lamott Failure Copy Share Image
Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states… — Anne Lamott Altered Copy Share Image
You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding… — Anne Lamott Emptiness Copy Share Image
Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No… — Anne Lamott Association 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
Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why… — Anne Lamott Amazing friend Copy Share Image
It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it. — Anne Lamott Funny Copy Share Image
“All that is holding us together [is] stories and compassion.” — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image
“It is funny how no one seems to want my always excellent advice.” — Anne Lamott Advice Copy Share Image
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. — Anne Lamott Forgiveness Copy Share Image
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