X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Anne Lamott Inspirational Quotes (567)

Page 12 of 24
Filter & Style
Image
Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe, he said. Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe. Salon April 25, 2003
Anne Lamott
Image
If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.
Anne Lamott
Image
Expectations are resentments under construction.
Anne Lamott
Image
Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.
Anne Lamott
Image
The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
Anne Lamott
Image
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
Anne Lamott
Image
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
Image
You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
Anne Lamott
Image
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Anne Lamott
Image
Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
Anne Lamott
Image
If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
Anne Lamott
Image
... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
Anne Lamott
Image
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
Anne Lamott
Image
We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.
Anne Lamott
Image
'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
Anne Lamott
Image
The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.
Anne Lamott
Image
Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
Anne Lamott
Image
Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
Anne Lamott
Image
Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
Anne Lamott
Image
If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.
Anne Lamott
Image
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
Anne Lamott
Image
At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
Anne Lamott
Image
I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
Anne Lamott
Image
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
Anne Lamott
Previous
Next