The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return. — Anne Lamott Home Copy Share Image
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again… — Anne Lamott Cold Copy Share Image
If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who… — Anne Lamott Being crazy 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
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).” — Anne Lamott Inventiveness Copy Share Image
“My mind kept thinking its harsh thinky thoughts, but I would distract myself from them gently and say, 'Those are not the… — Anne Lamott Psychology Copy Share Image
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose… — Anne Lamott Alive Copy Share Image
I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull-… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“She wears latex bicycle shorts nearly every day, and I will tell you why: because she can. I consider it an act… — Anne Lamott Art work Copy Share Image
The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“What can we say beyond Wow, in the presence of glorious art, in music so magnificent that it can't have originated solely… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you… — Anne Lamott Babies Copy Share Image
E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far… — Anne Lamott Advice Copy Share Image
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I… — Anne Lamott 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 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
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of… — Anne Lamott Dark Copy Share Image
Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a… — Anne Lamott Arrogant Copy Share Image
“Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily… — Anne Lamott Childhood Copy Share Image
“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin… — Anne Lamott Mind Copy Share Image
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects. — Anne Lamott Character Copy Share Image
Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people. — Anne Lamott Change Copy Share Image
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott Alive Copy Share Image
“[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The single most radical thing I know . . . is that I get to take care of myself.” — Anne Lamott Care Copy Share Image
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who… — Anne Lamott Church Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott Effort Copy Share Image
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right. — Anne Lamott Beautiful Copy Share Image
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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