Anne Lamott Quotes

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes... including you." ~Anne Lamott

"And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. 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 just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore." ~Ann Lamott

“As we develop love, appreciation, and forgiveness for others over time, we may accidentally develop those things toward ourselves, too.” ~Anne Lamott

"Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right.  Just DANCE." ~Anne Lamott

"Ever since I was a kid, I've thought that there was something noble and mysterious about writing, about the people who could do it well, who could create a world as if they were little gods or sorcerers. And you know what? I still do." ~Anne Lammot

"Everyone thinks bad thoughts. Everyone, even the most seemingly well-balanced, serene, loveliest people sometimes have icky, repulsive thoughts. To me, this is excellent news. It means that we are all in the same boat, mostly loving and helpful and creative, but every so often? Not so much. This does not mean you are not okay. To the contrary, this means you are real, and deeply human, which is who we were born to be. " ~Anne-Lamott

"Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns." ~Anne Lamott

"Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behaviour. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides." ~Anne Lamott

"I am going to try to pay attention to the spring, to look around at all the flowers and the trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen." ~Anne Lamott

"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace-only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us." ~Anne Lamott

"I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world—present and in awe." ~Anne Lamott

"Joy is the best makeup." ~Anne Lamott

"...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you." ~Ann Lamott

"Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath." ~Anne Lamott

“People help you, or you help them, and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.” ~Anne Lamott

"Perfection is shallow, unreal an fatally uninteresting." ~Ann Lamott

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the insane belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die and a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it. Besides, perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness, playfulness and life force." ~Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"People tend to look at successful writers, writers who are getting their books published and maybe even doing well financially, and think that they sit down at their desks every morning feeling like a million dollars, feeling great about who they are and how much talent they have and what a great story they have to tell; that they take in a few deep breaths, push back their sleeves, roll their necks a few times to get all the cricks out, and dive in, typing fully formed passages as fast as a court reporter...... But this is just the fantasy of the uninitiated. I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we don’t like her very much. Very few writers know what they’re saying until they’ve done it." ~Anne Lamott

"The most profound thing we can offer to our children is our own healing." ~Anne Lamott

"The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day." ~Anne Lamott

"The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines." ~Anne Lamott

"There are three prayers: Thanks, Help and Wow! and it occurs to me that when these are said full-heartedly they too indicate a pure and focused attention on what is within or around us." ~Anne Lamott

“To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.” ~Anne Lamott

“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 to be.” ~Anne Lamott

"Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over." ~Anne Lamott

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul." ~Anne Lamott

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again." ~Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the  action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.” ~Anne Lamott

"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." ~Anne Lammot 

"You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly - that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp." ~Anne Lamott

“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.” ~Anne Lamott

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BIO

Anne Lamott is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical. Wikipedia

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