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
faith hardship wonderful
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.
mistake fall kids
I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and don’t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I don’t know why it’s not more like it is in the movies, why things don’t come out neatly and lessons can’t be learned when you’re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such motley packaging.
hard-work wife age
Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
jesus sleep worry
I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
prayer believe mean
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
sometimes figures who-you-are
Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
laughter holiness form
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
hurt years resentment
I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
uplifting ocean blessing
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
want gravestone helpers
I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.
prayer two helping
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
deals
I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
inspiring sweet giving-up
Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?
intuition juicy rich
Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.