Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Moment
Moments
Young
Going
Astonishing
Hungry
Dance
Cold
Full

More quotes by Anne Lamott

Image
Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
Anne Lamott
Image
...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.
Anne Lamott
Image
Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.
Anne Lamott
Image
I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
Anne Lamott
Image
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
Anne Lamott
Image
Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
Anne Lamott
Image
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
Anne Lamott
Image
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
Anne Lamott
Image
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.
Anne Lamott
Image
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.
Anne Lamott
Image
Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
Anne Lamott
Image
Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.
Anne Lamott
Image
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean they show us how to live and die.
Anne Lamott
Image
So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people. Like I love you, Elizabeth. You're the angel God sent me.
Anne Lamott
Image
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
Anne Lamott
Image
I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.
Anne Lamott
Image
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
Anne Lamott
Image
The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
Anne Lamott
Image
If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
Anne Lamott
Image
...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.
Anne Lamott