“ Ram Dass, who described himself as a Hin-Jew, said that ultimately we’re all just walking each other home. I love that. I try to live by it. Anne Lamott
“ Peg came over with dinner tonight and told me about this dumb schmaltzy poem she heard someone read at an AA meeting. It got me thinking. It was about how while we are on earth, our limitations are… Anne Lamott
“ Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You ha… Anne Lamott
“ Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it… Anne Lamott
“ Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath. For something to be delicious, you have to be present to savor it, and presence is in attention and in the flow of breath. It begins in the m… Anne Lamott
“ My understanding of incarnation is that we are not served by getting away from the grubbiness of suffering. Sometimes we feel that we are barely pulling ourselves forward through a tight tunnel on bad… Anne Lamott
“ My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are. Anne Lamott
“ Look, if you don't have a bad attitude and lots of things wrong with you, no serious person is going to be interested. If you feel scared, outraged, confused most of the time, come on over. Have a sea… Anne Lamott
“ It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T. Anne Lamott
“ It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable. Anne Lamott
“ In May 1992, I went to Ixtapa with my son, Sam, who was then two and a half. At the time, my best friend of twenty years, named Pammy, had been battling breast cancer for two years. I also had a boyfr… Anne Lamott
“ If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care. Anne Lamott
“ I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to see.Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. 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
“ I recognize the divinity in you, but actually more like, I recognize our each-otherness, instantly Anne Lamott
“ I mean God as shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy sel… Anne Lamott
“ I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced. Anne Lamott
