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“… since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.”

“… most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.”

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“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.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.”

Anne Lamott

“Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it… I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“It's better to be kind than to be right.”

Anne Lamott

“Certainty is missing the point entirely.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.”

Anne Lamott

“You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are feeding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.”

Anne Lamott

“I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)”

Anne Lamott

Source: Crooked Little Heart

“Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic… but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.”

Anne Lamott

“Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human?
I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

“The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith