Quote

It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.

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
Apples
Spiritual
Remember
Hard
Burping
Cherished
Apple

More quotes by Anne Lamott

Image
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
Anne Lamott
Image
Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.
Anne Lamott
Image
I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
Anne Lamott
Image
Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.
Anne Lamott
Image
When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
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
Image
But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
Anne Lamott
Image
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
Image
Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.
Anne Lamott
Image
Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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
I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
Anne Lamott
Image
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
Image
only grieving can heal grief the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
Anne Lamott
Image
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
Anne Lamott
Image
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
Image
For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
Anne Lamott
Image
To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.
Anne Lamott
Image
At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
Anne Lamott
Image
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
Anne Lamott