“ You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. Anne Lamott
“ 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
“ You never get over certain losses, but the anguish part eventually ends, and it all just sucks for a while. There were moments when I understood that there was nothing much I was going to understand o… Anne Lamott
“ You need to find people who laugh gently at themselves, who remind you gently to lighten up. Anne Lamott
“ You have to be grateful whenever you get to someplace safe and okay, even if it turns out it wasn’t quite where you were heading. The light you see when people are in the tunnel of deep trouble is dom… Anne Lamott
“ You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship. Anne Lamott
“ You begin to cry and writhe and yell and then to keep on crying; and finally, grief ends up giving you the two best gifts: softness and illumination. Every Anne Lamott
“ Writing involves seeing people suffer and, as Robert Stone once put it, finding some meaning therein. Anne Lamott
“ When we agree to (or get tricked into) being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come… Anne Lamott
“ We’re individuals in time and space who are often gravely lost, and then miraculously, in art, found. Anne Lamott
“ Vonnegut said, When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth. So Anne Lamott
“ There is cracks, cracks, in everything, that's how the light gets in.' I had cracks but not the hope. Anne Lamott
“ The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening. Gratitude is peace. Anne Lamott
“ Kindness toward others and radical kindness to ourselves buy us a shot at a warm and generous heart, which is the greatest prize of all. Do you want this, or do you want to be right? Well, can I get b… Anne Lamott
“ It's always the same old problem: how to find ourselves in the great yammering of ego and tragedy and discomfort and obsession with everyone else's destinies. Anne Lamott
“ If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so lov… Anne Lamott
