Life Quotes by Anne Lamott

What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.

— Anne Lamott

“Life is not a submarine.”

— Anne Lamott

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

— Anne Lamott

“Usually with life, you start wherever you are, and you flail around for a while--”

— Anne Lamott

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

— Anne Lamott

“Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be.”

— Anne Lamott

“Life is change and what we need is muscle, flexibility, and awareness.”

— Anne Lamott

You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.

— Anne Lamott

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

— Anne Lamott

“inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).”

— Anne Lamott

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

— Anne Lamott

When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.

— Anne Lamott

Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose…

— Anne Lamott

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

— Anne Lamott

“One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on…

— Anne Lamott

“I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from…

— Anne Lamott

“Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but…

— Anne Lamott

What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that…

— Anne Lamott

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

— Anne Lamott

I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why…

— Anne Lamott

When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about…

— Anne Lamott

Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry…

— Anne Lamott

“I prayed for my heart to soften, to forgive her, and love her for what she did give me--life, great values, a…

— Anne Lamott

I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the…

— Anne Lamott

You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that…

— Anne Lamott

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of…

— Anne Lamott

All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow,…

— Anne Lamott

“Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or…

— Anne Lamott

“It can be too sad here. We so often lose our way. It is easy to sense and embrace meaning when life…

— Anne Lamott

“But what if the great secret insider-trading truth is that you don't ever get over the biggest losses in your life? Is…

— Anne Lamott

“But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die.…

— Anne Lamott

Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or…

— Anne Lamott

“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups…

— Anne Lamott

“Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given to each syllable of life as life…

— Anne Lamott

“What saved me was that I found gentle, loyal and hilarious companions, which is at the heart of meaning: maybe we don’t…

— Anne Lamott

I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.

— Anne Lamott

Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

— Anne Lamott

Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea…

— Anne Lamott

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book…

— Anne Lamott

“Life is like a nice fresh batch of Swiss cheese. Note to self: savor the holes, too, like the spaces between musical…

— Anne Lamott