I had enough to wrestle, wrangle and settle back into, with this one life of mine. Besides, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.
Anne LamottStichwörter: life
...I've gotten endless signs of the greatness of God's love and hilarious care, but I always end up needing a newer sign, maybe one that is cuter and more spangly.
Anne LamottGrief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.
Anne Lamott...that grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish.
Anne Lamott...I believe that when all si said and done, all you can do is to show up for someone in crisis, which seems so inadequate. But then when you do, it can radically change everything. Your there-ness, your stepping into a scared [person's] line of vision, can be life giving, because often everyone else is in hiding...
Anne LamottStichwörter: inspirational
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Anne LamottStichwörter: prayer help thankfulness
Life is change and what we need is muscle, flexibility, and awareness.
Anne LamottFor me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous.
In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write
really, really shitty first drafts.
Children should not have treacherous diseases or be afraid. This should be one rule we all agree on.
Anne LamottStichwörter: children
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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