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
“When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love (April 2012, O Magazine)” — Anne Lamott Emptiness 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 Catholic Copy Share Image
“Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be.” — Anne Lamott Deep life Copy Share Image
I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me. — Anne Lamott Business Copy Share Image
“Grace is having a commitment to- or acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish.” — Anne Lamott Foolish Copy Share Image
Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love. — Anne Lamott And love 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
My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit… — Anne Lamott Complicate Copy Share Image
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not… — Anne Lamott Care Copy Share Image
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of… — Anne Lamott Arithmetic Copy Share Image
“...to be born into this world exactly the way it is, into these exact circumstances, even if that meant not having a… — anne lamott Ozone layer Copy Share Image
“Maybe what we say to each other is not so important after all, but just that we are alive together, and present… — Anne Lamott Maybe Copy Share Image
My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't… — Anne Lamott Certain Copy Share Image
Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get… — 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 Expelled Copy Share Image
There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up,… — Anne Lamott Eye 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
We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If… — Anne Lamott Age Copy Share Image
“While it is hard to fathom who we are and how we are to live when public chaos shatters our routine, the… — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is… — Anne Lamott Behavior Copy Share Image
“Sometimes - oh, just once in a blue moon-I resist being receptive to God's generosity, because I'm busy with a project and… — Anne Lamott Generosity Copy Share Image
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of… — Anne Lamott Annoying Copy Share Image
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write,… — Anne Lamott Able Copy Share Image
I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know. — Anne Lamott Line Copy Share Image
“Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
“The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and… — Anne Lamott Language Copy Share Image
Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down. — Anne Lamott Laughing Copy Share Image
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott Acceptance Copy Share Image
“...but you have to remind yourself that perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.” — Anne Lamott Excellence Copy Share Image
“I started to cry then, and I cried for a long time without making much noise. I cried and cried like a… — Anne Lamott Long time Copy Share Image
... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten… — Anne Lamott Eight Copy Share Image
“Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.” — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work. — Anne Lamott Always Copy Share Image
“Mattie was in love with Daniel, of course; this was the X within the circle on her map: I love Daniel.” — Anne Lamott In love Copy Share Image
I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted. — Anne Lamott Also 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
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. — Anne Lamott Alone Copy Share Image
Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it. — Anne Lamott Doing Copy Share Image
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
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