3 December 2020 Anne Lamott The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God’s identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it’s the truth.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I’d hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott Some people seem to understand this – that life and change take time – but I am not one of those people.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere… You don’t have to dress up, for instance, and you can’t hear them boo you right away.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott Some people won’t go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light – in other words, through life – registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you’re only as well as you are.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
