There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced." ” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts. — Anne Lamott Care Copy Share Image
“I was frozen like in a dream when your feet weigh fifty pounds each and the danger is almost upon you.” — Anne Lamott Danger Copy Share Image
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott Anger and forgiveness Copy Share Image
...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you. — Anne Lamott Caring Copy Share Image
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those… — Anne Lamott Community 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
Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from… — Anne Lamott Dead mother Copy Share Image
Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into… — Anne Lamott Animal Copy Share Image
My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what… — Anne Lamott Decision Copy Share Image
“One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“P 264: Elizabeth talking to Rosie re Sharon leaving--"Try to be a good sport, baby. Sharon feels as bad as you do.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When we think we can do it all ourselves--fix, save, buy, or date a nice solution--it's hopeless. We're going to screw things… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow,… — Anne Lamott Awe Copy Share Image
A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle,… — Anne Lamott Angel Copy Share Image
“These lines of D.H. Lawrence are taped to the wall of my office: "What is the knocking? What is the knocking at… — Anne Lamott Angel Copy Share Image
“Underneath all things means that beneath the floorboards, in the depths, in the spaces between the pebbles or sandy floor that contain… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“And autumn ain't so shabby for wow, either. The colors are broccoli and flame and fox fur. The tang is apples, death,… — anne lamott Autumn Copy Share Image
“You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is… — Anne Lamott Overeating Copy Share Image
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. — Anne Lamott Discomfort Copy Share Image
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. — Anne Lamott Folk Copy Share Image
“She said to go ahead and feel the feelings. I did. They felt like shit.” — Anne Lamott Feelings Copy Share Image
Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are. — Anne Lamott Awakening Copy Share Image
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through. — Anne Lamott Cooperation Copy Share Image
I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world. — Anne Lamott Gift Copy Share Image
“do you still believe that I am the Resurrection and the Life? Even when you don’t get what you want? Even when… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians. — Anne Lamott Christian Copy Share Image
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. — Anne Lamott Funny Copy Share Image
These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy… — Anne Lamott Attention Copy Share Image
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