“ I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orb… Anne Lamott
“ I picked up a book on gardens, so I could study flowers and trees and vines in that way, and honest to God, people who read my novel believed that I loved to garden. Sometimes in fact they would start… Anne Lamott
“ His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream material visible. Anne Lamott
“ Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice. Anne Lamott
“ Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's tr… Anne Lamott
“ At the same time, the truth is that we are beloved, even in our current condition, by someone; we have loved and been loved. We have also known the abyss of love lost to death or rejection, and that i… Anne Lamott
“ As well as we know our grown children and relatives, we don't know how much energy they have to put into simply keeping their lives together at all. Anne Lamott
“ One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65] Anne Lamott
“ My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean. Anne Lamott
“ When you don't have enough or you run out, you feel in your core that the leak has begun and there will be no end to the leakage. And this makes you feel like a chump. Whereas having some money gives… Anne Lamott
“ The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice d… Anne Lamott
“ I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not… Anne Lamott
“ The insidious palace lie that we will get over crushing losses means that our emotional GPS can never find true north, as it is based on maps that no longer mention the most important places we have b… Anne Lamott
“ One thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capa… Anne Lamott
“ May be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not emplo… Anne Lamott
“ Inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California). Anne Lamott
