Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.
Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around and say, Wow, there's that same mockingbird; there's that woman in the red hat again. The woman in the red hat is about hope because she's in it up to her neck, too, yet every day she puts on that crazy red hat and walks to town.
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.
The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it. . . I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.
I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments. . . these rooms are future ruins
I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.