“ You've heard it said that when all else fails, follow instructions. So we breathe, try to slow down and pay attention, try to love and help God's other children, and - hardest of all, at least to me -… Anne Lamott
“ You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the… Anne Lamott
“ You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. Anne Lamott
“ Who knows, maybe those two rogue leaders, Gandhi and Jesus, were right—a loving response changes the people who would beat the shit out of you, including yourself, of course. Their way, of the heart,… Anne Lamott
“ When you can step back at moments like these and see what is happening, when you watch people you love under fire or evaporating, you realize that the secret of life is patch patch patch. Thread your… Anne Lamott
“ When we are stunned to the place beyond words, we’re finally starting to get somewhere. It is so much more comfortable to think that we know what it all means, what to expect and how it all hangs toge… Anne Lamott
“ When we are stuck in our convictions and personas, we enter into the disease of having good ideas and being right. Anne Lamott
“ What you're looking for is already inside you..You can't buy it, lease it, rent it, date it, or apply for it. The best job in the world can't give it to you. Neither can success, or fame, or financial… Anne Lamott
“ What seems true is that something in life, on the highways or in our hearts, is always being installed, or being repaired, or being torn down for the next installation. Anne Lamott
“ We, too, are shadow and light. We are not supposed to know this, or be all these different facets of humanity, bright and dark. We are raised to be bright and shiny, but there is meaning in the accept… Anne Lamott
“ We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the… Anne Lamott
“ We said that we believed that the truth would set us free, and the truth was that the Sunday-school staff was burned out, that there were almost no people of color, and that if we didn't get more help… Anne Lamott
“ We can pray for a shot at having a life in which we are present and awake and paying attention and being kind to ourselves. We can pray, Hello? Is there anyone there? We can pray, Am I too far gone, o… Anne Lamott
“ We can change. People say we can’t, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change. It offers more of itself when we agree to give up our busyness. Anne Lamott
“ We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. But we do. We have so much we want to say an… Anne Lamott
“ Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back… 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
“ To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass—seeing things in such a narrow and darkly narcissis… Anne Lamott
