Want Quotes by Anne Lamott

if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.

— Anne Lamott

But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get

— Anne Lamott

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

— Anne Lamott

“It is funny how no one seems to want my always excellent advice.”

— Anne Lamott

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.

— Anne Lamott

If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

— Anne Lamott

I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells…

— Anne Lamott

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

— 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

Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them…

— Anne Lamott

I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was…

— Anne Lamott

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can…

— Anne Lamott

I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin…

— Anne Lamott

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

— Anne Lamott

If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away,…

— Anne Lamott

You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that…

— Anne Lamott

We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not…

— 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

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking…

— Anne Lamott

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about…

— Anne Lamott

I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me…

— Anne Lamott

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out…

— 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

We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about…

— Anne Lamott

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you…

— 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

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing,…

— Anne Lamott

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch…

— Anne Lamott