Time Quotes by Anne Lamott

It's a great time to be alive.

— Anne Lamott

“I started to cry then, and I cried for a long time without making much noise. I cried and cried like a…

— Anne Lamott

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

— Anne Lamott

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

— Anne Lamott

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

— Anne Lamott

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

— Anne Lamott

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

— 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

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

— Anne Lamott

only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief,…

— Anne Lamott

“He had the time to hear, like a person who believed there was someone alive beneath the rubble of herself, who heard…

— Anne Lamott

“This family business can be so stressful - difficult, damaged people showing up t spend time with other difficult, damanged people”

— Anne Lamott

“How are we going to get through this craziness?' I asked. There was silence for a moment. 'Left foot, right foot, left…

— Anne Lamott

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot…

— Anne Lamott

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in…

— Anne Lamott

“I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I…

— Anne Lamott

Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human…

— Anne Lamott

“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provided…

— Anne Lamott

I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of…

— Anne Lamott

“Imagining God can be so different from wishful thinking, if your spiritual experiences change your behavior over time. Have you become more…

— Anne Lamott

“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to…

— Anne Lamott

The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being…

— Anne Lamott

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and…

— Anne Lamott

You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding…

— Anne Lamott

I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I…

— Anne Lamott

“….but at the same time, they got a miracle. It wasn’t the kind that comes on a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day float. And…

— Anne Lamott

I have a terrible time during elections. I am way too politically involved. I absolutely never argue politics with anyone, as it…

— 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…

— Anne Lamott

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on…

— Anne Lamott

“Some of us have a ragged faith. You cry for a long time, and then after that are defeated and flattened for…

— Anne Lamott

“I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about…

— Anne Lamott

“But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at…

— Anne Lamott

“During congregational silences, in meditation rooms or halls, in prison cells and meeting rooms, in silent confession at church, all these screwed-up…

— Anne Lamott

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

— Anne Lamott

Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

— Anne Lamott

“Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?”

— Anne Lamott

I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is…

— Anne Lamott

My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today.…

— Anne Lamott

“What a mess we are, I thought. But this is usually where any hope of improvement begins, acknowledging the mess. When I…

— 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