“First I showered off that horrible butt smell you get from being on an airplane. [p. 257]” — Anne Lamott Smell Copy Share Image
Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not… — Anne Lamott Bookstores Copy Share Image
If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it. — Anne Lamott Fulfillment Copy Share Image
“When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God "God": "Because when you see something so great,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying. — Anne Lamott Child Copy Share Image
Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have… — Anne Lamott People Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. — Anne Lamott Artist 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 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 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
“We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing,… — Anne Lamott 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
“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
“It made no sense that Abraham could head for the mountain in Moriah still believing in God's goodness. It made no sense… — Anne Lamott Abraham Copy Share Image
“Nell's husband has short-man syndrome. Eddie is one of those deadly dull people who is so upbeat that I suspect he would… — Anne Lamott Computers Copy Share Image
“...I had to learn new skills. One was to no longer pretend not to see what was going on. ... I was… — Anne Lamott New skills Copy Share Image
“The best way to get quiet, other than the combination of extensive therapy, Prozac, and a lobotomy, is first to notice that… — Anne Lamott Mental health Copy Share Image
“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
“writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. that thing you had to force yourself to do--the… — Anne Lamott Tea ceremony Copy Share Image
“...I believe that when all si said and done, all you can do is to show up for someone in crisis, which… — Anne Lamott Crisis Copy Share Image
“No one has expressed it better than a great novelist I heard once on a talk show who said something like "You… — Anne Lamott Novelist Copy Share Image
“I rest in silence and music and long strides, while Sam rests in noise and motion.” — Anne Lamott Music Copy Share Image
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68) — Anne Lamott Bereavement Copy Share Image
Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003 — Anne Lamott April Copy Share Image
It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.” — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Her message was always the same: God loved the world, all evidence to the contrary, and we must not give up on… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure… — Anne Lamott Agnostic Copy Share Image
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love… — Anne Lamott Children 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
My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself. — Anne Lamott Best teacher Copy Share Image
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