The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable. — Anne Lamott Despair Copy Share Image
Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Wonder takes our breath away, and makes room for new breath. That’s why they call it breathtaking.” — Anne Lamott Breath Copy Share Image
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. — Anne Lamott Good writing Copy Share Image
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe. — Anne Lamott Awe Copy Share Image
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I knew to put on my favorite earrings. Sometimes you start with the outside and you get it right. You tend to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why… — Anne Lamott Alive Copy Share Image
I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival.… — Anne Lamott Abracadabra Copy Share Image
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams - what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred -… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not… — Anne Lamott Care Copy Share Image
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“If you want to have loving feelings today, do loving things: Flirt with everyone, especially old people and yourself. Pick up some… — Anne Lamott Love Copy Share Image
Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come… — Anne Lamott Being real Copy Share Image
Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and… — Anne Lamott Animation Copy Share Image
“When you love something like reading - or drawing or music or nature - it surrounds you with a sense of connection… — Anne Lamott Connection Copy Share Image
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and… — Anne Lamott Childhood Copy Share Image
And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may… — Anne Lamott Dark Copy Share Image
I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one. — Anne Lamott Opinion Copy Share Image
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it. — Anne Lamott Atheist Copy Share Image
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Kindness toward others and radical kindness to ourselves buy us a shot at a warm and generous heart, which is the greatest… — Anne Lamott Generous heart Copy Share Image
“Children should not have treacherous diseases or be afraid. This should be one rule we all agree on.” — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period. — Anne Lamott Book Copy Share Image
“The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped; thank God.” — Anne Lamott Exhaustion Copy Share Image
The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us… — Anne Lamott Grace Copy Share Image
It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out… — Anne Lamott Babysitting Copy Share Image
The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness. — Anne Lamott Comedy Copy Share Image
Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not… — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
“But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always… — Anne Lamott Meditation Copy Share Image
You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
![“I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of…” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22e/anne-lamott-188_childhood_i-don-t-know-where-to-start-one-writing_3064070.jpg)
