The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” — Anne Lamott Desperate Copy Share Image
“Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience. — Anne Lamott Audience Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“[W]hen you're dreaming, you're not the one calling the shots. So it's a reprieve.” — Anne Lamott Dream Copy Share Image
“Say it's true: It is what it is. We're social, tribal, musical animals, walking percussion instruments. Most of us do the best… — Anne Lamott Gratitude Copy Share Image
If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your… — Anne Lamott Certainty Copy Share Image
The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold… — Anne Lamott Blessing Copy Share Image
I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the… — Anne Lamott Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Having a great narrator is like having a great friend whose company you love, whose mind you love to pick, whose running… — Anne Lamott Business Copy Share Image
We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring… — Anne Lamott Ability Copy Share Image
“Jesus said that whatever you did to the least of his people, you did to him, and the lifers in penitentiaries are… — Anne Lamott Head start Copy Share Image
“Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in not enough help,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“...what good people can do in the face of great sorrow. We help some time pass for those suffering. We sit with… — Anne Lamott Good people Copy Share Image
Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In… — Anne Lamott Against all odds Copy Share Image
God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how… — Anne Lamott Confusion Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Ram Dass, who described himself as a Hin-Jew, said that ultimately we’re all just walking each other home. I love that. I… — Anne Lamott Israel Copy Share Image
Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to… — Anne Lamott Divine Copy Share Image
I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been… — Anne Lamott Aries Copy Share Image
“I decided to go to the beach at San Quentin, and practice living as if today was one of the precious few… — Anne Lamott Beach Copy Share Image
There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time. — Anne Lamott Comeback Copy Share Image
The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that… — Anne Lamott Dedication Copy Share Image
“Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?” — Anne Lamott Forgiveness Copy Share Image
I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and… — Anne Lamott Child Copy Share Image
“They ask that we pray for their families, and for kinder leaders, and for the homeless, and people with AIDS, and people… — Anne Lamott Family Copy Share Image
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope… — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline… But also every single… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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