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“Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.”

Anne Lamott

“Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair

“When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.”

Anne Lamott

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

“Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“… [T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”

Anne Lamott

“It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.”

Anne Lamott

“Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through:
"Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe."
Salon April 25, 2003”

Anne Lamott

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.”

Anne Lamott

“Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Blue Shoe

“I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.”

Anne Lamott

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

“If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.”

Anne Lamott

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

“Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.”

Anne Lamott

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

“So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.”

Anne Lamott

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

“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.”

Anne Lamott

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”

Anne Lamott

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith