I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking… — Anne Lamott Age Copy Share Image
“Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t… — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible… — Anne Lamott Boundless Copy Share Image
This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light… — Anne Lamott Light Copy Share Image
“To heal, it seems we have to stand in the middle of the horror, at the foot of the cross, and wait… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I went around saying for a long time that I am not one of those Christians who is heavily into forgiveness --… — Anne Lamott Christianity Copy Share Image
“If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never… — Anne Lamott Beloved person Copy Share Image
“Tom has been having a difficult patch, and we meet at the church of IKEA as often as possible, because it is… — Anne Lamott Advent Copy Share Image
The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after… — Anne Lamott Authentic life 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
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
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out,… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the… — Anne Lamott Dawn Copy Share Image
“I know God enjoys hearing my take on how best we should all proceed, as I'm always full of useful advice. I'm… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In many spiritual and wisdom paths, it is written that God created us to have company and to be God’s loving eyes… — 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 Book Copy Share Image
Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Pope Francis says the name of God is mercy. Our name was mercy, too, until we put it away to become more… — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image
“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“It turns out that welcome is solidarity. We’re glad you’re here, and we’re with you. This whole project called you being alive,… — Anne Lamott Joy Copy Share Image
“It took me one more year to admit that I could no longer control my drinking. And finally on July 7, 1986,… — Anne Lamott Wine Copy Share Image
I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you… — Anne Lamott Childhood Copy Share Image
If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Hope is not about proving anything. Its about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to… — Anne Lamott Grief Copy Share Image
“Wow" has a reverberation - wowowowowow - and this pulse can soften us, like the electrical massage an acupuncturist directs to your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or… — Anne Lamott Breath Copy Share Image
I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find… — Anne Lamott Belief Copy Share Image
“Sam was alternately distant and clingy and mean, because I am the primary person he banks on and bangs on. I stayed… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“We said that we believed that the truth would set us free, and the truth was that the Sunday-school staff was burned… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
