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
i-can
I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.
acceptance reality filling-up
The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.
inspiring funny-inspirational children
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
thinking people way
I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack.
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.
creating people trying
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
ignorance love-is bigger
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
expectations sometimes floats
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
butterfly perfect bird
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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.
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.
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.
intuition juicy rich
Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.