“ But what if the great secret insider-trading truth is that you don’t ever get over the biggest losses in your life? Is that good news, bad news, or both? The good news is that if you don’t seal up you… Anne Lamott
“ But what if the great secret insider-trading truth is that you don't ever get over the biggest losses in your life? Is that good news, bad news, or both? . . . . The pain does grow less acute, but the… Anne Lamott
“ But as Rumi said, Through love all pain will turn to medicine, not most pain, or for other people; and the pain and failures grew me, helped slowly restore me to the person I was born to be. I had to… Anne Lamott
“ Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business. Anne Lamott
“ Also, I have a pouch below my belly, whereas I’d always had a thin waist before. Now there’s this situation down there, low and grabbable. If it had a zipper, you could store stuff in there, like a fa… Anne Lamott
“ All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like when you're first learning to put nail polish on your right hand w… Anne Lamott
“ After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. Anne Lamott
“ Sometimes when you need to feel the all-embracing nature of God, paradoxically you need to hang out in the ordinariness, in daily ritual and comfort. Anne Lamott
“ I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your most beloved mental-patient relative, with great humo… Anne Lamott
“ I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so mu… Anne Lamott
“ Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. Anne Lamott
“ 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 loved, a… Anne Lamott
“ We all wanted this because let's face it, it's so inspiring and such a relief when people find a way to bear the unbearable, when you can organize things in such a way that a tiny miracle appears to h… Anne Lamott
“ Various people at her church kept saying that she could be happy because she was going home to be with Jesus. This is the sort of thing that gives Christians a bad name. This, and the Inquisition. Sue… Anne Lamott
“ They seemed to read all the papers the school sent home, which I think is actually a little show-offy. Anne Lamott
“ Must have been a book—way down there in the slush pile of manuscripts—that somehow slipped out of the final draft of the Bible. That would have been the chapter that dealt with how we’re supposed to r… Anne Lamott
“ It speaks of such integrity to refuse to pretend that you’re doing well just to help other people deal with the fact that sometimes we face an impossible loss. Anne Lamott
“ Is something a friend once told me. She said that every single one of us at birth is given an emotional acre all our own. You get one, your awful Uncle Phil gets one, I get one, Tricia Nixon gets one,… Anne Lamott
