Anne Lamott

“You can get information from any point on a baby’s body, the toes, the soft spot, and this information is life, merciful energy, unruined radiance.”
Anne Lamott

“Moments of compassion, giving, grief, and wonder shift our behavior, get inside us and change realms we might not have agreed to have changed.”
Anne Lamott

"You can't run alongside your grown children with sunscreen and ChapStick on their hero's journey. You have to release them. It's disrespectful not to."
Anne Lamott

“Worst thing about getting older is not bad back, failing vision, memory loss, sore feet, etc. It’s that you don’t recognize anyone in People [magazine].”
Anne Lamott

"My friend Paul used to say in his late 70s that he felt like a young man with something really wrong with him."
Anne Lamott

"I understand that the mystery of Grace is that God loves our president exactly as much as God loves my grandson."
Anne Lamott

“All it takes is one safe person to listen, to hear, to noodge us to start over and not give up.”
Anne Lamott

“We are all gigantically flawed, such screwups. Everyone is broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it most together.”
Anne Lamott

“Sometimes when we cannot take it one more day, like the renowned octopus who...escaped his aquarium and headed toward the sea, a mentor appears, who knows things, and more important, knows that he or she does not know things.”
Anne Lamott

“All the people I’ve known who have received a terminal diagnosis have gotten serious about joy, forgiveness, simple pleasures...and have been able to find good-enough peace toward people who did unforgivable damage to them and their families.”
Anne Lamott

“Love mercy—accept the acceptance; receive the forgiveness, whenever we can, for as long as we can. Then pass it on. We are bread to be served to the poor and the hungry, and sometimes it is we who need the bread.”
Anne Lamott