Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTTButterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTTThe reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
ANNE LAMOTTThis is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
ANNE LAMOTTI do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
ANNE LAMOTTA big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
ANNE LAMOTTYou can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
ANNE LAMOTTDogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
ANNE LAMOTTChurches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTTA good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
ANNE LAMOTTWhat fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
ANNE LAMOTTLaughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
ANNE LAMOTTThe world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
ANNE LAMOTTSmall is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
ANNE LAMOTTYour inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
ANNE LAMOTTLove falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
ANNE LAMOTT