Anne Lamott quotes

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. (Anne Lamott)
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
Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
Anne Lamott
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
Anne Lamott
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.
Anne Lamott
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Anne Lamott
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
Anne Lamott
Joy is the best makeup.
Anne Lamott
I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. (Anne Lamott)
A hundred years from now? All new people.
Anne Lamott
So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
Anne Lamott
I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't.
Anne Lamott
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
Anne Lamott
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
Anne Lamott
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...
Anne Lamott
Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
Anne Lamott
The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.
Anne Lamott
It's better to be kind than to be right.
Anne Lamott
Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides. (Anne Lamott)
You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.
Anne Lamott
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.
Anne Lamott
Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.
Anne Lamott
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
Anne Lamott