All Anne Lamott Quotes
- Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy… All
- The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who… All
- Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up. Best
- And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but… Believe
- This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing. Been
- All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same things I needed… All
- Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. Artist
- Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages… Age
- I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be… Believe
- My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with. Choose
- When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress. Conversation
- I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction.… Blossoms
- All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm,… All
- The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another… Always Going
- Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers. All
- Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity. Closest
- Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath. Breath
- I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth… Along
- What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to… Big
- Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an… Appropriate
- When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us. Hook
- Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses. Glasses
- I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while. Greet
- Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. All
- I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me. Get Thirsty