Love Quotes by Anne Lamott

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

— Anne Lamott

Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.

— Anne Lamott

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

— Anne Lamott

“I love to be, and so often am, right.”

— Anne Lamott

I don't think anything is the opposite of love.

— Anne Lamott

She lived in fear of ifonic endings.

— Anne Lamott

Hope begins in the dark.

— Anne Lamott

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

— Anne Lamott

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

— Anne Lamott

My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.

— Anne Lamott

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

— Anne Lamott

I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

— Anne Lamott

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.

— Anne Lamott

“Sometimes love does not look like what you had in mind”

— Anne Lamott

“Hallelujah that in spite of it all, there is love, there is singing, nature, laughing, mercy.”

— Anne Lamott

I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and…

— Anne Lamott

“Mattie was in love with Daniel, of course; this was the X within the circle on her map: I love Daniel.”

— Anne Lamott

... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten…

— Anne Lamott

“...I've gotten endless signs of the greatness of God's love and hilarious care, but I always end up needing a newer sign,…

— Anne Lamott

“When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love (April 2012, O Magazine)”

— Anne Lamott

You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going…

— Anne Lamott

To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now…

— Anne Lamott

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

— Anne Lamott

“Anything that leaves you more fearful, more isolated, more disconnected from other people, more full of judgment or self-hatred, is not of…

— Anne Lamott

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of…

— Anne Lamott

You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind…

— Anne Lamott

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us,…

— Anne Lamott

one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than…

— Anne Lamott

“Does sunset sometimes look like the sun is coming up? Do you know what a faithful love is like? You’re crying; you…

— Anne Lamott

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without…

— Anne Lamott

I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and…

— 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

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

— Anne Lamott

It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have…

— Anne Lamott

“If you want to have loving feelings today, do loving things: Flirt with everyone, especially old people and yourself. Pick up some…

— 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

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

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

— Anne Lamott

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

— Anne Lamott

We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.

— Anne Lamott