If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever. — Anne Lamott Anger Copy Share Image
I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you. — Anne Lamott Funny Copy Share Image
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate. — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
“If you want to change the way you feel about people, you have to change the way you treat them.” — Anne Lamott Change Copy Share Image
“Grace is having a commitment to- or acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me. — Anne Lamott Business Copy Share Image
“Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came… — Anne Lamott Catholic Copy Share Image
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you. — Anne Lamott Best prayer Copy Share Image
“When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love (April 2012, O Magazine)” — Anne Lamott Emptiness Copy Share Image
“The good news is that God has such low standards, and reaches out to those of us who are often not lovable… — Anne Lamott Good news Copy Share Image
“I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore… — Anne Lamott Adventure Copy Share Image
You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your… — Anne Lamott Confidence Copy Share Image
I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching… — Anne Lamott Emptiness Copy Share Image
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere...… — Anne Lamott Attention Copy Share Image
“What if you wake up at sixty and realize that you forgot to wake up, and you never became the person you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get… — Anne Lamott Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given to each syllable of life as life… — Anne Lamott Focus Copy Share Image
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is… — Anne Lamott Behavior Copy Share Image
“Sometimes - oh, just once in a blue moon-I resist being receptive to God's generosity, because I'm busy with a project and… — Anne Lamott Generosity Copy Share Image
“While it is hard to fathom who we are and how we are to live when public chaos shatters our routine, the… — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. — Anne Lamott Change Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.” — Anne Lamott Excellence Copy Share Image
