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Anne Lamott quotes: Because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. Because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
Anne Lamott quotes: One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline ... But also every single day a kid needs a break. One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline ... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
Anne Lamott quotes: We do endure, and that out of the wreckage something surprising will rise. We do endure, and that out of the wreckage something surprising will rise.
Anne Lamott quotes: There is so much mercy around us and in us, so much available to us if we just have the eyes and intention to see it. There is so much mercy around us and in us, so much available to us if we just have the eyes and intention to see it.
Anne Lamott quotes: When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love(April 2012, O Magazine) When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love
(April 2012, O Magazine)
Anne Lamott quotes: When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us. When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
Anne Lamott quotes: What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life. What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
Anne Lamott quotes: When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual. When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
Anne Lamott quotes: My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with. My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.
Anne Lamott quotes: Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking. Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
Anne Lamott quotes: She said to go ahead and feel the feelings. I did. They felt like shit. She said to go ahead and feel the feelings. I did. They felt like shit.
Anne Lamott quotes: Resentments make even the best of us feel superior. Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.
Anne Lamott quotes: I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees. I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
Anne Lamott quotes: My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it. My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
Anne Lamott quotes: Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life.
Anne Lamott quotes: The single most radical thing I know ... is that I get to take care of myself. The single most radical thing I know ... is that I get to take care of myself.
Anne Lamott quotes: I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
Anne Lamott quotes: Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.) Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)
Anne Lamott quotes: his cell phone - the adolescent's pacemaker. his cell phone - the adolescent's pacemaker.
Anne Lamott quotes: It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes. It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.
Anne Lamott quotes: Being enough was going to have to be an inside job. Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.
Anne Lamott quotes: No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
Anne Lamott quotes: She lived in fear of ifonic endings. She lived in fear of ifonic endings.
Anne Lamott quotes: The way I dance is by writing. The way I dance is by writing.
Anne Lamott quotes: If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever. If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
Anne Lamott quotes: If you don't believe in what you are saying, there is no point in your saying it. You might as well call it a day and go bowling. If you don't believe in what you are saying, there is no point in your saying it. You might as well call it a day and go bowling.
Anne Lamott quotes: telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be about as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat. Some telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be about as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat. Some
Anne Lamott quotes: Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering. Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.
Anne Lamott quotes: I let my mind wander. I let my mind wander.
Anne Lamott quotes: Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers. Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
Anne Lamott quotes: I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
Anne Lamott quotes: Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
Anne Lamott quotes: Growing up is not going nearly as efficiently as I had hoped. Growing up is not going nearly as efficiently as I had hoped.
Anne Lamott quotes: Disaster usually happens for me when everything I have counted on has stopped working, including all my best skills, intentions, and good ideas. Disaster usually happens for me when everything I have counted on has stopped working, including all my best skills, intentions, and good ideas.
Anne Lamott quotes: I decided to go to the beach at San Quentin, and practice living as if today was one of the precious few left to me. What a concept. I decided to go to the beach at San Quentin, and practice living as if today was one of the precious few left to me. What a concept.
Anne Lamott quotes: When the ancient Egyptians finished building the pyramids, they had built the pyramids. When the ancient Egyptians finished building the pyramids, they had built the pyramids.
Anne Lamott quotes: Mark Twain said that Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before. Mark Twain said that Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before.
Anne Lamott quotes: I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians. I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.
Anne Lamott quotes: Gratitude is peace. Gratitude is peace.
Anne Lamott quotes: I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me. I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me.
Anne Lamott quotes: When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress. When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
Anne Lamott quotes: Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
Anne Lamott quotes: I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know. I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
Anne Lamott quotes: and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear... and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear...
Anne Lamott quotes: God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it. God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.
Anne Lamott quotes: You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard. So You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard. So
Anne Lamott quotes: You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
Anne Lamott quotes: Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can.
Anne Lamott quotes: I am all the ages I've ever been. I am all the ages I've ever been.
Anne Lamott quotes: No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior. No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
Anne Lamott quotes: Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea. Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.
Anne Lamott quotes: She quoted the Reverend James Forbes as saying, Nobody gets into heaven without a letter of reference from the poor. She quoted the Reverend James Forbes as saying, Nobody gets into heaven without a letter of reference from the poor.
Anne Lamott quotes: If you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to. If you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
Anne Lamott quotes: In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy. In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.
Anne Lamott quotes: But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you? But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
Anne Lamott quotes: Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
Anne Lamott quotes: We're Easter people, living in a Good Friday world. We're Easter people, living in a Good Friday world.
Anne Lamott quotes: It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it. It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
Anne Lamott quotes: But in surrender you have won. But in surrender you have won.
Anne Lamott quotes: If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world. If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
Anne Lamott quotes: They kind of want to write, but they really want to be published. You'll never get to where you want to be that way, I tell them. They kind of want to write, but they really want to be published. You'll never get to where you want to be that way, I tell them.
Anne Lamott quotes: If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it. If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.
Anne Lamott quotes: If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
Anne Lamott quotes: When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down. When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
Anne Lamott quotes: We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand. We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.
Anne Lamott quotes: The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
Anne Lamott quotes: After a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat. After a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
Anne Lamott quotes: How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to. How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
Anne Lamott quotes: Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
Anne Lamott quotes: Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one. Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
Anne Lamott quotes: I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us. I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
Anne Lamott quotes: I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself. I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
Anne Lamott quotes: Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational. Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational.
Anne Lamott quotes: He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu. He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.
Anne Lamott quotes: I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God. I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
Anne Lamott quotes: For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
Anne Lamott quotes: Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything. Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything.
Anne Lamott quotes: Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses. Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.
Anne Lamott quotes: Everyone was on God's payroll, whether they knew it or not. Everyone was on God's payroll, whether they knew it or not.
Anne Lamott quotes: Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while
Anne Lamott quotes: A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much. A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much.
Anne Lamott quotes: The redwoods are like organ pipes, playing silent chords. The redwoods are like organ pipes, playing silent chords.
Anne Lamott quotes: The trees are so huge that they shut you up. The trees are so huge that they shut you up.
Anne Lamott quotes: This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing ... Bodies are so messy and disappointing. This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing ... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
Anne Lamott quotes: I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects. I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
Anne Lamott quotes: She walked to the front door. 'Hello?''Hello,' a woman's voice said.'Are you a Witness?''I swear to God I didn't see a thing. She walked to the front door. 'Hello?'
'Hello,' a woman's voice said.
'Are you a Witness?'
'I swear to God I didn't see a thing.
Anne Lamott quotes: Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting. Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
Anne Lamott quotes: I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life. I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
Anne Lamott quotes: Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
Anne Lamott quotes: This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period. This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
Anne Lamott quotes: I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer.
Anne Lamott quotes: We're individuals in time and space who are often gravely lost, and then miraculously, in art, found. We're individuals in time and space who are often gravely lost, and then miraculously, in art, found.
Anne Lamott quotes: It's better to be kind than to be right. It's better to be kind than to be right.
Anne Lamott quotes: Joy is the best makeup. Joy is the best makeup.
Anne Lamott quotes: Easter says that love is more powerful than death, bigger than the dark, bigger than cancer, bigger even than airport security lines. Easter says that love is more powerful than death, bigger than the dark, bigger than cancer, bigger even than airport security lines.
Anne Lamott quotes: I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness. I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.
Anne Lamott quotes: Do you think that we're wired this way? With the devil inside?" "Yeah, in the same way we're wired for God. But not to the same extent. Do you think that we're wired this way? With the devil inside?" "Yeah, in the same way we're wired for God. But not to the same extent.
Anne Lamott quotes: There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time. There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
Anne Lamott quotes: A hundred years from now?All new people. A hundred years from now?
All new people.
Anne Lamott quotes: Being human can be so dispiriting. It is a real stretch for me a lot of the time. Being human can be so dispiriting. It is a real stretch for me a lot of the time.

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