Quotes from Anne Lamott

I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist.

I felt changed and a little crazy. But though I was still like a stained and slightly buckled jigsaw puzzle with some pieces missing, now there were at least a few border pieces in place.

Jesus is saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.

This is the work of the Holy Spirit and our operating instructions, to be cooling breezes to sad or worried people, including ourselves, in this sometimes hot stuffy joint [the world].

In order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent.

Here is what I know of love: Love is the gas station and the fuel, the air and the water. You might as well give up on keeping the gas cap screwed on tight, keeping love at bay, staying armored or buttressed, because love will get in. It will wear you down. Love is ruthless, whether you notice this or not....It will win. It always does, at least in the long term...

This is all that restoration requires most of the time, that one person not give up.

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

They say we are punished not for the sin but by the sin, and I began to feel punished by my unwillingness to forgive.

Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be.

But where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are. We find God in our human lives, and that includes the suffering. I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.

When you're kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back—the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy's Law.