All Anne Lamott Quotes
- But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger… Able
- Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business. Book
- Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person… Bondage
- 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, wow! Look at… Awe
- Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that… All
- Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. Decrease
- It's better to be kind than to be right. Better
- She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way… Assembling
- For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. Beautiful
- There is ecstasy in paying attention. Attention
- I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth… Act
- Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being… All
- When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He… Always Starts
- Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person.… Becomes
- You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely… Child
- This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period. Book
- I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's… Abracadabra
- We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born… Already Found
- Write as if your parents are dead. Dead
- It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. Apple
- The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you. Difference
- I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The… All
- Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting. Fatally
- I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your… Adorable
- Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard… Bringing