Anne Lamott Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott Famous Quotes & Sayings
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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline ... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
There is so much mercy around us and in us, so much available to us if we just have the eyes and intention to see it.
When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love
(April 2012, O Magazine)
(April 2012, O Magazine)
When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)
It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.
If you don't believe in what you are saying, there is no point in your saying it. You might as well call it a day and go bowling.
telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be about as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat. Some
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.
Disaster usually happens for me when everything I have counted on has stopped working, including all my best skills, intentions, and good ideas.
I decided to go to the beach at San Quentin, and practice living as if today was one of the precious few left to me. What a concept.
Mark Twain said that Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before.
When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard. So
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can.
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
She quoted the Reverend James Forbes as saying, Nobody gets into heaven without a letter of reference from the poor.
If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
They kind of want to write, but they really want to be published. You'll never get to where you want to be that way, I tell them.
If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.
We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
After a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much.
This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing ... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
She walked to the front door. 'Hello?'
'Hello,' a woman's voice said.
'Are you a Witness?'
'I swear to God I didn't see a thing.
'Hello,' a woman's voice said.
'Are you a Witness?'
'I swear to God I didn't see a thing.
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer.
We're individuals in time and space who are often gravely lost, and then miraculously, in art, found.
Easter says that love is more powerful than death, bigger than the dark, bigger than cancer, bigger even than airport security lines.