It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
Anne LamottThat thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
Anne LamottYou own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
Anne LamottSometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
Anne LamottNow. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out of my new used car because he or she needed to keep me away for a few days until just the moment when my old friend most needed me to help her mother move into whatever comes next. Maybe nothing conscious helped to stall me so that I would be there when I could be most useful. Or maybe it did. Iโll never know for sure. And anyway, it doesnโt really matter.
Anne Lamott