When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
ANNE LAMOTTWhen God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
ANNE LAMOTTDon’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
ANNE LAMOTTJoy is the best makeup.
ANNE LAMOTTNothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
ANNE LAMOTTI think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTTYou own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
ANNE LAMOTTSmall is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
ANNE LAMOTTCreative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
ANNE LAMOTTHere are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
ANNE LAMOTTExpectations are resentments under construction.
ANNE LAMOTTThe reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
ANNE LAMOTTYou can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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 LAMOTTOr you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
ANNE LAMOTTNever compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTT