I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven. — Anne Lamott Alone time Copy Share Image
...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. — Anne Lamott Mask 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 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
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. — Anne Lamott Being a parent Copy Share Image
When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our… — Anne Lamott Candle Copy Share Image
Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to… — Anne Lamott 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 Child Copy Share Image
“Oh, but my stomach, she is like a waterbed covered in flannel. When I lie on my side in bed, my stomach… — Anne Lamott Humor Copy Share Image
That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk… — Anne Lamott Care Copy Share Image
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing:… — Anne Lamott Day Copy Share Image
“It's always the same old problem: how to find ourselves in the great yammering of ego and tragedy and discomfort and obsession… — Anne Lamott Obsession Copy Share Image
“I tell my students that the odds of their getting published and of it bringing them financial security, peace of mind, and… — Anne Lamott Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I… — Anne Lamott Book Copy Share Image
“Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel… — Anne Lamott Dreams Copy Share Image
“[Teaching] was hard. Some of the kids were needy and vulnerable and depressed, with faces of dubious, aged concern, rumpled foreheads, downcast… — Anne Lamott Bad day Copy Share Image
“I prayed for my heart to soften, to forgive her, and love her for what she did give me--life, great values, a… — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't… — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things… — Anne Lamott Goals Copy Share Image
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God. — Anne Lamott Bible Copy Share Image
If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it. — Anne Lamott Drug Copy Share Image
I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“We think that if our values aren’t the correct ones, we would have other ones, which would then be the correct ones.” — Anne Lamott Values Copy Share Image
“By the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I… — Anne Lamott Fear of death Copy Share Image
Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life. — Anne Lamott Enemy Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness and mercy mean that, bit by bit, you begin to outshine the resentment.” — Anne Lamott Anger Copy Share Image
Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none… — Anne Lamott Book Copy Share Image
If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching. — Anne Lamott Big picture Copy Share Image
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people… — Anne Lamott God Copy Share Image
if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. — Anne Lamott Apples Copy Share Image
... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65] — Anne Lamott Being human Copy Share Image
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