60 Anne Lamott Quotes for You to Enjoy

Anne Lamott

American Author

Born: Apr 10, 1954

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. 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

Grace Meets Only Mystery Understand Does Leave Where Us Found

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

Eyes Try Spring Pay Pay Attention Trees Attention Look Around Am Up Close Going Listen Hectic Flowers

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd 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 people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. Anne Lamott

Life Truth Good You People Problem Illusion Power Enjoy Spend Circumstances Out Find About Over Look How Odd Been Precious Precious Life Trying Taste Going Whether Creating Your Who

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 it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. Anne Lamott

Hope Never Give Up Hopeless Everything Give Never Because Up Reason Basically

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog. Anne Lamott

Happiness Day Dog Absolute Cat Idea Bed Rainy Rainy Day

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time. Anne Lamott

Time You Comeback Lose Nothing Sweet Down Out Out Of Time About

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear. Anne Lamott

Faith Me Fear Safe Place Doubt Way Summoned Would Seemed Rather Leaf Like Safe Leap Lily Another Coming Up Green Did Moved Grew Place Which While Swamp Places Land Then Held Pads Next Across Series Each Prepared Round Start

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you. Anne Lamott

Love You People Holding Nothing Baby Our Scariest Like Know Look Cry Heals Parts Listen Lament Us Letting

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. Anne Lamott

Oppressor Voice Perfectionism

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. Anne Lamott

Hope Sometimes Expectation Onto Opens Shiny Pinned Forth Floats Image

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering. Anne Lamott

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. Anne Lamott

Love People Writing Words Impeachment Word First Cute Progressive Hesitates Drawn Run Divine Divine Love Almost Know Piece Makes Any Screaming Little Sentence Use Many Lives

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you. Anne Lamott

You Parents Kids Embarrassment Relief Often Grandparents Resist

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. Anne Lamott

Time History Generation Humor Our Earth Only Shared Genes Pyramids Like Understand How Were Blood Expecting Egyptians Children Younger Pregnant Younger Generation Means Actually Profound Here Sibling

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be. Anne Lamott

Love People Will See Feel Know How Existential Going Maybe Children Clue Us Hard Many Fill Need

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us. Anne Lamott

Hurt Known Years Person Us Resent

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. Anne Lamott

Death You Gardening Ugly Soil Black Dig Earth See Seeds Seems Clay Throw Never Nails Over Over It Know Cover Rocks Rocky Handful Hands Doomed Polluted Holes Again Little Roots Your Full Poppy

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are. Anne Lamott

Birthday You Worst About Only Part Well Another Celebrating Shock

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility. Anne Lamott

Family People World Responsibility First Own Believe Other Secretly My Own Devices Mess Left Really Inclination Whole Lives

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. Anne Lamott

Hope Time Good Me Mother Long Long Time Feeling Cute Way About Give Having More Life-Threatening Glad Had Long Time Ago Feeling Good Most She Caused Handful Up Festive Died Ever Her

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work. Anne Lamott

Work Me Waiting Better Ways Some Always Blown Gets Whistle

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