Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTTButterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTTHuman lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
ANNE LAMOTTYou have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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 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 LAMOTTTo love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
ANNE LAMOTTI think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTTLaughter is carbonated holiness.
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 either practice being right or practice being kind.
ANNE LAMOTTEveryone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
ANNE LAMOTTYou are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
ANNE LAMOTTThe reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
ANNE LAMOTTHope begins in the dark.
ANNE LAMOTTFaith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
ANNE LAMOTTPeople help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
ANNE LAMOTT