Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
Anne LamottLooking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.
Anne LamottI was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
Anne LamottI think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.
Anne LamottYou were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess, and lonely, and His or Her child. God loved you no matter how crazy you felt on the inside, no matter what a fake you were; always, even in your current condition, even before coffee. God loves you crazily, like I love you...like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.
Anne LamottLittle by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. Weโre a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone. But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.
Anne Lamott