Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
Anne LamottLeft to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
Anne LamottIf I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
Anne LamottAfter a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
Anne Lamott