Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted… — Anne Lamott Forget the past Copy Share Image
And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what… — Anne Lamott Booze Copy Share Image
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it… — Anne Lamott Grief Copy Share Image
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through,… — Anne Lamott Castles Copy Share Image
You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
“I felt changed and a little crazy. But though I was still like a stained and slightly buckled jigsaw puzzle with some… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope… — Anne Lamott Being the best Copy Share Image
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and… — Anne Lamott Basics Copy Share Image
“Some of us have a ragged faith. You cry for a long time, and then after that are defeated and flattened for… — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
“You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create… — Anne Lamott Imagination Copy Share Image
Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
“It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his… — Anne Lamott Brown eyes Copy Share Image
“...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could… — Anne Lamott Divine Copy Share Image
I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just… — Anne Lamott Christianity Copy Share Image
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and… — Anne Lamott Attention Copy Share Image
“To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its… — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
Grief is just so scary… If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like… — Anne Lamott Angry Copy Share Image
“Maybe it is because music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the… — Anne Lamott Heartbeat Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around… — Anne Lamott Contentment Copy Share Image
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of… — Anne Lamott Away from you Copy Share Image
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be… — Anne Lamott Castle Copy Share Image
“Try to be a good sport, baby. Sharon feels as bad as you do. It's all right for you to be mad,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, "It's not like you don't… — Anne Lamott Choice Copy Share Image
I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is… — Anne Lamott Blowhards Copy Share Image
Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars,… — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her… — Anne Lamott Heart Copy Share Image
“... writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice… — Anne Lamott Telling the truth Copy Share Image
“Look, if you don't have a bad attitude and lots of things wrong with you, no serious person is going to be… — Anne Lamott Attitude Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can… — Anne Lamott Fire Copy Share Image
“Mercy means compassion, empathy, a heart for someone’s troubles. It’s not something you do – it is something in you, accessed, revealed,… — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image
I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
