I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings… — Anne Lamott Anger Copy Share Image
“My three prayers are variations on Help, Thanks, Wow. That's all I'll ever need, besides the silence, the pain, and the pause… — Anne Lamott Prayer Copy Share Image
“Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of… — Anne Lamott Freedom Copy Share Image
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in… — Anne Lamott Bleakness Copy Share Image
You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really… — Anne Lamott Baby 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 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
“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness… — Anne Lamott Certainty Copy Share Image
Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“So why does our writing matter, again?" they ask. Because of the spirit, I say. Because of the heart. Writing and reading… — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“. . . I bet I'm beginning to make some parents nervous - here I am, bragging of being a dropout, and… — Anne Lamott Busy person 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
“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
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
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
Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and… — Anne Lamott Character 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
by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“There is ecstasy in paying attention... Anyone who wants to can be surprised by the beauty or pain of the natural world,… — Anne Lamott Attention Copy Share Image
“he gets this glinty Donald Trump look in his eyes, like in the old cartoons where someone gets a greedy brainstorm, blinks,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day… — Anne Lamott Humor Copy Share Image
You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think,… — Anne Lamott Ashamed Copy Share Image
“I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about… — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
“Most of us figure out by a certain age - some of us later than others - that life unspools in cycles,… — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
