Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamottis an American novelist and non-fiction writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth10 April 1954
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
revolutionary ashamed shows
So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
inspiring feet looks
Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
gratitude mean heart
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.
beautiful fear lying
Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
makeup joy littles
Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
believe writing done
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
brother jesus rocks
For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
confusing body disappointing
This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
thinking opposites
I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
baseball animal giving
Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. We’re a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone. But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.
looks moments strings
If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
spiritual apples remember
It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
spiritual gratitude self
The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.
book writing students
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.