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“If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.”

Anne Lamott

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

“One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline…. But also every single day a kid needs a break.”

Anne Lamott

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

“My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.”

Anne Lamott

“When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“… the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]”

Anne Lamott

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.”

Anne Lamott

“It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

“There is ecstasy in paying attention.”

Anne Lamott

“And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.”

Anne Lamott

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

“A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Crooked Little Heart

“He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.”

Anne Lamott

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

“If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that's death.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.”

Anne Lamott

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

“Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?”

Anne Lamott

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?”

Anne Lamott

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