The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you. — Anne Lamott Difference Copy Share Image
My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he… — Anne Lamott Earth Copy Share Image
I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place... — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part. — Anne Lamott Being the best Copy Share Image
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. — Anne Lamott Flailing Copy Share Image
When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” — Anne Lamott Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Anything that leaves you more fearful, more isolated, more disconnected from other people, more full of judgment or self-hatred, is not of… — Anne Lamott Fear Copy Share Image
A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together,… — Anne Lamott Believer Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so… — Anne Lamott Blown away Copy Share Image
“I know that sometimes these friends feel that they have been expelled from the ordinary world they lived in before and that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“What you're looking for is already inside you..You can't buy it, lease it, rent it, date it, or apply for it. The… — Anne Lamott Financial security Copy Share Image
Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get… — Anne Lamott Age 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
“Spring is sweet, the baby season; summer is the teenage season -- too much energy, too much growth and beauty and heat… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The way I see things, God loves you the same whether you're being elegant or not. It feels much better when you… — Anne Lamott God listens Copy Share Image
“Help. We can be freed from a damaging insistence on forward thrust, from a commitment to running wildly down a convenient path… — Anne Lamott Praying Copy Share Image
“Imagining God can be so different from wishful thinking, if your spiritual experiences change your behavior over time. Have you become more… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to… — Anne Lamott Time Copy Share Image
Having a child as a single mother was a crucible - maybe this is true for all parents. I got rid of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.” — Anne Lamott Dawned Copy Share Image
