Perfectionism Voice Quotes by Anne Lamott

What an incredible drug fear is.

— 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…

— Anne Lamott

It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.

— 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…

— Anne Lamott

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Anne Lamott

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Anne Lamott

All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Anne Lamott