Expectations are resentments under construction.
ANNE LAMOTTExpectations are resentments under construction.
ANNE LAMOTTYou can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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 is so much bigger than our ignorance.
ANNE LAMOTTIf we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
ANNE LAMOTTI’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
ANNE LAMOTTWe are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
ANNE LAMOTTLaughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
ANNE LAMOTTAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
ANNE LAMOTTRule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
ANNE LAMOTTBecoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
ANNE LAMOTTI do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
ANNE LAMOTTSometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
ANNE LAMOTTYou can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
ANNE LAMOTTWe begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
ANNE LAMOTTButterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTT