“When you love something like reading—or drawing or music or nature—it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great.” — Anne Lamott Connection Copy Share Image
The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get… — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't. — Anne Lamott Character Copy Share Image
If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning… — Anne Lamott Every morning Copy Share Image
“Does sunset sometimes look like the sun is coming up? Do you know what a faithful love is like? You’re crying; you… — Anne Lamott Faithful love Copy Share Image
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate straits. Mercy is not deserved. It involves absolving the… — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image
Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of… — Anne Lamott Belief Copy Share Image
“How are we going to get through this craziness?' I asked. There was silence for a moment. 'Left foot, right foot, left… — Anne Lamott Silence Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and… — 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 mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give… — Anne Lamott Arabia Copy Share Image
Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and… — Anne Lamott Affection Copy Share Image
“My son, Sam, at three and a half, had these keys to a set of plastic handcuffs, and one morning he intentionally… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in… — Anne Lamott America Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years… — Anne Lamott Achievement Copy Share Image
Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening. — Anne Lamott Awakening Copy Share Image
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity. — Anne Lamott Animal Copy Share Image
Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall… — Anne Lamott Character Copy Share Image
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We… — Anne Lamott Abel Copy Share Image
Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. — Anne Lamott Ego Copy Share Image
I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus. — Anne Lamott Comedy Copy Share Image
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“when people don’t have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries.” — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
“You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
