If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows… — Anne Lamott Able Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos. — Anne Lamott Foreheads Copy Share Image
It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have… — Anne Lamott Breeze Copy Share Image
All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I… — Anne Lamott Feels Copy Share Image
My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself. — Anne Lamott Best teacher Copy Share Image
I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition… — Anne Lamott Able Copy Share Image
If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package. — Anne Lamott Body Copy Share Image
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. — Anne Lamott Buddhism 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
You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and… — Anne Lamott Ashamed Copy Share Image
But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open. — Anne Lamott Singing Copy Share Image
“But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die.… — Anne Lamott Bank account Copy Share Image
I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this. — Anne Lamott Drink 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 Children Copy Share Image
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools:… — Anne Lamott Adults Copy Share Image
This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough,… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
“Do you think that we're wired this way? With the devil inside?" "Yeah, in the same way we're wired for God. But… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Awesome Copy Share Image
“My three prayers are variations on Help, Thanks, Wow. That's all I'll ever need, besides the silence, the pain, and the pause… — Anne Lamott Prayer Copy Share Image
“I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe, over the past twenty-five years, that there's… — Anne Lamott Five years Copy Share Image
“They taught us that extending ourselves to others would help us stay sober and sane. But they also wanted us to extend… — Anne Lamott Cup of tea Copy Share Image
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for… — Anne Lamott Black Copy Share Image
My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't… — Anne Lamott Brown Copy Share Image
