World Quotes by Anne Lamott

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.

— Anne Lamott

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

— Anne Lamott

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

— Anne Lamott

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

— Anne Lamott

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

— Anne Lamott

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed…

— Anne Lamott

If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who…

— Anne Lamott

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

— 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

Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the…

— Anne Lamott

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come…

— Anne Lamott

You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are…

— Anne Lamott

It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours,…

— Anne Lamott

There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit…

— Anne Lamott

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and…

— Anne Lamott

“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent…

— Anne Lamott

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of…

— Anne Lamott

Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states…

— 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

Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No…

— 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

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give…

— Anne Lamott

I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I…

— Anne Lamott

I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give…

— Anne Lamott

At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get…

— Anne Lamott

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of…

— 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

The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than…

— Anne Lamott

Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out…

— Anne Lamott

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such…

— Anne Lamott

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in…

— Anne Lamott

I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is…

— 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

Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but…

— Anne Lamott

I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and…

— Anne Lamott

Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the…

— Anne Lamott

You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really…

— Anne Lamott

Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is…

— Anne Lamott

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same…

— Anne Lamott

I knew that the world was a harsh place, and my family was a mess, and even though I danced as fast…

— Anne Lamott