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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college. — Anne Lamott

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back. — Anne Lamott

Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. — Anne Lamott

Because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. — Anne Lamott

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog. — Anne Lamott

When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind. — Anne Lamott

She said to go ahead and feel the feelings. I did. They felt like shit. — Anne Lamott

The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff - just like a joke. The — Anne Lamott

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. — Anne Lamott

Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior. — Anne Lamott

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit. — Anne Lamott

Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it. — Anne Lamott

I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists. — Anne Lamott

It is funny how no one seems to want my always excellent advice. — Anne Lamott

The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped; thank God. — Anne Lamott

I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation. — Anne Lamott

Being enough was going to have to be an inside job. — Anne Lamott

all of the great writers drank, except for Kafka and Nietzsche, neither of whom you exactly wanted to be when you grew up. — Anne Lamott

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty. — Anne Lamott

The way I dance is by writing. — Anne Lamott

She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming anymore. [p. 227] — Anne Lamott

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever. — Anne Lamott

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets. — Anne Lamott

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott

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

Everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110] — Anne Lamott

Every sound is by definition a stop, which is how we can hear it. — Anne Lamott

I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes. — Anne Lamott

Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive. — Anne Lamott

I know a person with a Ph.D. who goes to a church based on Star Wars: May the force be with you. — Anne Lamott

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity. — Anne Lamott

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

Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational. — Anne Lamott

I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak. — Anne Lamott

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen. — Anne Lamott

The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away. — Anne Lamott

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all. — Anne Lamott

There really is only today, although luckily that is also the eternal now. — Anne Lamott

Laughter is deliverance, bubbly salvation. — Anne Lamott

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath. — Anne Lamott

I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself. — Anne Lamott

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott

I knew to put on my favorite earrings. Sometimes you start with the outside and you get it right. You tend to your spirit through the body. — Anne Lamott

Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101. — Anne Lamott

Dreadlocks make people wonder if you're trying to be rebellious. — Anne Lamott

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott

butterflies were wind energy made visible. — Anne Lamott

All that is holding us together [is] stories and compassion. — Anne Lamott

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look. — Anne Lamott

I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. — Anne Lamott

She wants to have hiked; I want to have had dessert. — Anne Lamott

I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me. — Anne Lamott

All freedom comes from discipline. — Anne Lamott

Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one. — Anne Lamott

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out. — Anne Lamott

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. — Anne Lamott

And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old. — Anne Lamott

I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish. — Anne Lamott

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us. — Anne Lamott

I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do. — Anne Lamott

The redwoods are like organ pipes, playing silent chords. — Anne Lamott

Children should not have treacherous diseases or be afraid. This should be one rule we all agree on. — Anne Lamott

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen. — Anne Lamott

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are. — Anne Lamott

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while — Anne Lamott

I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button. — Anne Lamott

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God. — Anne Lamott

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. — Anne Lamott

Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything. — Anne Lamott

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness — Anne Lamott

Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses. — Anne Lamott

Everyone was on God's payroll, whether they knew it or not. — Anne Lamott

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. — Anne Lamott

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work. — Anne Lamott

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. — Anne Lamott

And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen. — Anne Lamott

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. — Anne Lamott

Laughter is carbonated holiness. — Anne Lamott

To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are. — Anne Lamott

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter. — Anne Lamott

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags. — Anne Lamott

Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference. — Anne Lamott

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. — Anne Lamott

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down. — Anne Lamott

If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care. — Anne Lamott

Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down. — Anne Lamott

It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. — Anne Lamott

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it. — Anne Lamott

I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom. — Anne Lamott

When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born. — Anne Lamott

I don't think anything is the opposite of love. — Anne Lamott

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb. — Anne Lamott

I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen. — Anne Lamott

If you want to change the way you feel about people, you have to change the way you treat them. — Anne Lamott

This is how we make important changes-- barely, poorly, slowly. — Anne Lamott

What's the difference between you and God? God never thinks he's you. — Anne Lamott

Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel. — Anne Lamott

Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know? — Anne Lamott