Thinking Quotes by Anne Lamott

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

— Anne Lamott

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

— Anne Lamott

What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.

— Anne Lamott

The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.

— Anne Lamott

I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.

— Anne Lamott

Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.

— Anne Lamott

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who…

— Anne Lamott

I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to…

— Anne Lamott

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

— Anne Lamott

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his…

— Anne Lamott

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.

— Anne Lamott

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none…

— Anne Lamott

My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think…

— Anne Lamott

Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.

— Anne Lamott

It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you,…

— Anne Lamott

Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so…

— Anne Lamott

When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim…

— 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

I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull-…

— Anne Lamott

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not…

— 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

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

I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil.…

— Anne Lamott

Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out…

— Anne Lamott

Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that…

— Anne Lamott

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks…

— Anne Lamott

Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I…

— Anne Lamott

Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow,…

— Anne Lamott

Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a…

— 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

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

— Anne Lamott

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think…

— Anne Lamott

I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

— Anne Lamott

I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you…

— Anne Lamott

There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn…

— Anne Lamott

Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not…

— Anne Lamott

Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to…

— Anne Lamott

I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been…

— Anne Lamott

This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things…

— Anne Lamott

And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may…

— Anne Lamott