--- title: "8 Nature of Beauty Quotes By Anne Lamott" description: "8 Nature of Beauty quotes by Anne Lamott. Plus more from Anne Lamott and more Nature of Beauty sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbf/anne-lamott-188_feels_sometimes-grace-works-like-water-wings-w_555597.png" --- > [Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/sometimes-grace-works-like-water-wings-when-you-feel-you-are-sinking/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbf/anne-lamott-188_feels_sometimes-grace-works-like-water-wings-w_555597.png) > [“...that grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/that-grace-is-having-a-commitment-to-or-at-least-an-acceptance-of/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c2/anne-lamott-188_foolish_that-grace-is-having-a-commitment-to-or_830846.png) > [I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/i-wish-grace-and-healing-were-more-abracadabra-kind-of-things-also/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdc/anne-lamott-188_abracadabra_i-wish-grace-and-healing-were-more-abrac_893230.png) > [But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/but-grace-can-be-the-experience-of-a-second-wind-when-even-though/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd7/anne-lamott-188_clarity_but-grace-can-be-the-experience-of-a-sec_1216075.png) > [“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/i-do-not-understand-the-mystery-of-grace-only-that-it-meets-us-where/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c85/anne-lamott-188_grace_i-do-not-understand-the-mystery-of-grace_1360874.png) > [Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/laughter-is-the-key-that-grace-has-arrived/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec1/anne-lamott-188_comedy_laughter-is-the-key-that-grace-has-arriv_1932874.png) > [I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/i-do-not-at-all-understand-the-mystery-of-grace-only-that-it-meets-us/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ff/anne-lamott-188_found_i-do-not-at-all-understand-the-mystery-o_1986039.png) > [Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/sometimes-grace-is-a-ribbon-of-mountain-air-that-gets-in-through-the/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/anne-lamott-188_air_sometimes-grace-is-a-ribbon-of-mountain_2905444.png) ## Other authors on Nature of Beauty - [Lailah Gifty Akita 97 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/william-shakespeare/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 12 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-victor-hugo-93504.jpg) Victor Hugo 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/victor-hugo/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-tullian-tchividjian-92416.jpg) Tullian Tchividjian 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/tullian-tchividjian/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dietrich-bonhoeffer-29418.jpg) Dietrich Bonhoeffer 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/dietrich-bonhoeffer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ann-voskamp-13597.jpg) Ann Voskamp 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/ann-voskamp/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-max-lucado-65870.jpg) Max Lucado 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/max-lucado/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edmund-burke-31567.jpg) Edmund Burke 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/edmund-burke/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-calvin-51107.jpg) John Calvin 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/john-calvin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-spurgeon-22605.jpg) Charles Spurgeon 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/charles-spurgeon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-dryden-51272.jpg) John Dryden 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/john-dryden/) ## More by Anne Lamott > [What an incredible drug fear is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/what-an-incredible-drug-fear-is/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/i-guess-he-ll-have-to-figure-out-someday-that-he-is-supposed-to-have/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/it-s-funny-where-we-look-for-salvation-and-where-we-actually-find-it/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/why-couldn-t-jesus-command-us-to-obsess-over-everything-to-try-to/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/publication-is-not-all-that-it-is-cracked-up-to-be-but-writing-is/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/your-problem-is-how-you-are-going-to-spend-this-one-odd-and-precious/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/and-yet-i-do-believe-there-is-ultimately-meaning-in-the-chaos-and/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/raising-a-child-whether-or-not-it-is-yours-is-like-nautilus-of-the/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/i-heard-a-preacher-say-recently-that-hope-is-a-revolutionary-patience/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/i-think-perfectionism-is-based-on-the-obsessive-belief-that-if-you/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/all-criticism-hurts-me-i-m-so-in-the-wrong-business/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/we-are-going-to-die-as-is-everyone-we-adore-i-hate-this-but-the/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 came in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/you-will-go-through-your-life-thinking-there-was-a-day-in-second/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/you-begin-to-string-words-together-like-beads-to-tell-a-story-you-are/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) > [“You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/you-lose-the-known-package-of-your-nice-organized-self-almost/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/anne-lamott/#itemlist", "name": "8 Nature of Beauty Quotes By Anne Lamott", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anne Lamott" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/sometimes-grace-works-like-water-wings-when-you-feel-you-are-sinking/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbf/anne-lamott-188_feels_sometimes-grace-works-like-water-wings-w_555597.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbf/anne-lamott-188_feels_sometimes-grace-works-like-water-wings-w_555597.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbf/anne-lamott-188_feels_sometimes-grace-works-like-water-wings-w_555597.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.” — Anne Lamott", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“...that grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anne Lamott" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/that-grace-is-having-a-commitment-to-or-at-least-an-acceptance-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c2/anne-lamott-188_foolish_that-grace-is-having-a-commitment-to-or_830846.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c2/anne-lamott-188_foolish_that-grace-is-having-a-commitment-to-or_830846.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c2/anne-lamott-188_foolish_that-grace-is-having-a-commitment-to-or_830846.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“...that grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish.” — Anne Lamott", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. 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