All Anne Lamott Quotes
- If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will… Always Dreamed
- 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 your breath. And… Around People
- You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush… Aids
- This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It… All
- Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea. Almost Always
- Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Discomfort
- Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts. Been
- The American way is to not need help, but to help. American
- I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping… Christian
- The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when… All
- I hate the summer. Hate
- Hope is not about proving anything. Its about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can… Any
- Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I… Anymore
- [S]he believed that the Buddhists were rightthat if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. Believed