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
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.
baby fall love-you
You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.
writing should-have people
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
personality clay spirit
You are not your bank account, our 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.