Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.
Anne Lamott
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Music
Breaths
Heart
Performances
Judgment
Singing
Enveloped
Coming
Resonant
Food
Furry
Everyone
Performance
Sense
Breath
More quotes by 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
When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
Anne Lamott
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
Anne Lamott
Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
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
Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
Anne Lamott
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.
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
Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.
Anne Lamott
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
Anne Lamott
I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
Anne Lamott
Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It's that simple.
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
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
Anne Lamott
Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
Anne Lamott
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
Anne Lamott
I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
Anne Lamott
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
Anne Lamott
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
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