Anne LamottThinkers

Addiction is a thing which getting under control is a little like putting an octopus to bed.

Addiction is no easier to argue with than is trying to blow out a lightbulb.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Grief is a process, not a state.

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

The Mother is sentimentalized more than anyone by Americans on Mother's Day but blamed more than anyone for the culture's bad people and behavior.

Motherhood is bringing a child into the world despite knowing what sorrows lies ahead in being human. Why do this? One can’t be sure, one can’t be sure.

Paying attention is a kind of ecstasy. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

The Present lasts forever because it's really all we have.