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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college. — Anne Lamott

It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying. — Anne Lamott

You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads) — Anne Lamott

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

I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically. — Anne Lamott

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker. — Anne Lamott

Is it okay to be a tiny tiny bit tired of Caitlyn? Yes, was very brave but so far he's gone from man to mannequin, instead of man to woman. — 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

There's freedom in hitting bottom — Anne Lamott

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

Now, if you ask me, what's going on is that we're all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another. — Anne Lamott

his cell phone - the adolescent's pacemaker. — Anne Lamott

But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions? — 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

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me. — Anne Lamott

When you are on the knife's edge - when nobody knows exactly what is going to happen next, only that it will be worse - you take in today. — Anne Lamott

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

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

I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while. — Anne Lamott

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

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers. — 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

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long. — 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

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

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world. — Anne Lamott

In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy. — Anne Lamott

It's like bitch-slapping E.T. — Anne Lamott

There is cracks, cracks, in everything, that's how the light gets in.' I had cracks but not the hope. — Anne Lamott

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. — Anne Lamott

Life on earth is a head-scratcher for anyone who's paying attention. This place has been a bad match for me since I was four. — Anne Lamott

She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together. — Anne Lamott

Since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind. — Anne Lamott

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice. — Anne Lamott

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate. — Anne Lamott

It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it. — Anne Lamott

But I have to believe that Jesus prefers honesty to anything else. I was saying, "Here's who I am," and that is where most improvement has to begin. — Anne Lamott

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

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

It is in many people's best interest for you not to find
yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the
whole world's, to proceed. — Anne Lamott

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this. — Anne Lamott

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life. — Anne Lamott

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. — Anne Lamott

The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and blues. — Anne Lamott

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back. — Anne Lamott

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company. — David Friedman

Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram
it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar. — Anne Lamott

But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you? — Anne Lamott

It's better to be kind than to be right. — Anne Lamott

The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you. — Anne Lamott

[W]hen you're dreaming, you're not the one calling the shots. So it's a reprieve. — Anne Lamott

I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life. — Anne Lamott

Wonder takes our breath away, and makes room for new breath. That's why they call it breathtaking. — 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

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

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

Laughter is carbonated holiness. — Anne Lamott

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

butterflies were wind energy made visible. — Anne Lamott

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

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

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us? — Anne Lamott

And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped. — 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

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

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

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

It's a great time to be alive. — 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

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

"Laughter is the effervescent form of holiness."
— Annie 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