“It is funny how no one seems to want my always excellent advice.” — Anne Lamott Advice Copy Share Image
Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up. — Anne Lamott Joy Copy Share Image
“This is how we make important changes-- barely, poorly, slowly.” — Anne Lamott Change Copy Share Image
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town — Anne Lamott Circus Copy Share Image
“Dreadlocks make people wonder if you’re trying to be rebellious.” — Anne Lamott Dreadlocks Copy Share Image
I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain. — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
“...that grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Everything slows down when we listen and stop trying to fix the unfixable.” — Anne Lamott Communication Copy Share Image
I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian. — Anne Lamott Christian Copy Share Image
“I saw a button pin once that said: “I’m not tense. I’m just very, very alert.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“There is cracks, cracks, in everything, that's how the light gets in.' I had cracks but not the hope.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you? — Anne Lamott Care Copy Share Image
“Maybe what we say to each other is not so important after all, but just that we are alive together, and present… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“...to be born into this world exactly the way it is, into these exact circumstances, even if that meant not having a… — anne lamott Ozone layer Copy Share Image
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of… — Anne Lamott Arithmetic Copy Share Image
If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going… — Anne Lamott Character Copy Share Image
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that… — Anne Lamott Animation Copy Share Image
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must… — Anne Lamott Emotion Copy Share Image
And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I had NO interest in being a theologian, especially not a Christian, as I had been raised by progressive atheists. We bowed… — Anne Lamott Atheist Copy Share Image
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a… — Anne Lamott Animation Copy Share Image
“Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out… — Anne Lamott Book Copy Share Image
“I had to grip myself by the wrist not to pitch one good idea after another at them. . . . I… — Anne Lamott Obstacle Copy Share Image
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. — Anne Lamott Forgiveness Copy Share Image
