Friendship Quotes by Anne Lamott

When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.

— Anne Lamott

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

— Anne Lamott

“Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.”

— Anne Lamott

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as…

— Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot,…

— Anne Lamott

Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

— Anne Lamott

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

— Anne Lamott

“I know that sometimes these friends feel that they have been expelled from the ordinary world they lived in before and that…

— Anne Lamott

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

— Anne Lamott

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they…

— Anne Lamott

My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around…

— Anne Lamott

A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you…

— Anne Lamott

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments…

— Anne Lamott

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what…

— Anne Lamott

“Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow (inadvertently, I’m sure) forgot…

— Anne Lamott

I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face,…

— Anne Lamott

Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy…

— Anne Lamott

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and…

— Anne Lamott

Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and…

— Anne Lamott

“Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean/ they…

— Anne Lamott

Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with…

— Anne Lamott

“My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments…

— Anne Lamott

“And what do you do in the face of this powerlessness? As a parent?" "You get to be obsessed and angry," Tom…

— Anne Lamott

Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a…

— Anne Lamott

“Having a great narrator is like having a great friend whose company you love, whose mind you love to pick, whose running…

— 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

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a…

— Anne Lamott

The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being…

— Anne Lamott

“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provided…

— Anne Lamott