If 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 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 LAMOTTYou own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
ANNE LAMOTTYou own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
ANNE LAMOTTGetting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
ANNE LAMOTTWhat fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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 LAMOTTAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
ANNE LAMOTTFaith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
ANNE LAMOTTOne thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
ANNE LAMOTTChurches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTTWriting and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTTSometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
ANNE LAMOTTAnd she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
ANNE LAMOTTI thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
ANNE LAMOTTHere are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
ANNE LAMOTTI’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
ANNE LAMOTT