Heart Quotes by Anne Lamott

She lived in fear of ifonic endings.

— Anne Lamott

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

— Anne Lamott

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.

— Anne Lamott

“She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91)”

— Anne Lamott

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

— Anne Lamott

I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church,…

— Anne Lamott

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

— Anne Lamott

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love…

— Anne Lamott

“She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming anymore. [p. 227]”

— Anne Lamott

Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and…

— Anne Lamott

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her…

— Anne Lamott

“Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was…

— Anne Lamott

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or…

— 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

I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly,…

— Anne Lamott

I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual…

— Anne Lamott

A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out,…

— Anne Lamott

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not…

— Anne Lamott

If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good…

— Anne Lamott

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never…

— Anne Lamott

I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give…

— Anne Lamott

I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short…

— 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

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is…

— Anne Lamott

There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put…

— Anne Lamott

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking…

— Anne Lamott

...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples…

— Anne Lamott

She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there…

— Anne Lamott

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't…

— Anne Lamott

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your…

— Anne Lamott

Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young,…

— Anne Lamott

This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough,…

— Anne Lamott

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is…

— Anne Lamott

“A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up.…

— Anne Lamott