Anne Lamott quotes - page 3

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on. (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
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
Anne Lamott
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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 Lamott
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
Anne Lamott
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
Anne Lamott
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Anne Lamott
If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death. (Anne Lamott)
If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
Anne Lamott
Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
Anne Lamott
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
Anne Lamott
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.
Anne Lamott
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
Anne Lamott
Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
Anne Lamott
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
Anne Lamott
The thing about light is that it really isn't yours; it's what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself. (Anne Lamott)
...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
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...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
Anne Lamott
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.
Anne Lamott
Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
Anne Lamott