Quote

When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.

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
Breathe
Pray
Crisis
Praying
Three
Kind
Things
Faced

More quotes by Anne Lamott

Image
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
Anne Lamott
Image
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
Anne Lamott
Image
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
Anne Lamott
Image
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
Anne Lamott
Image
Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.
Anne Lamott
Image
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Anne Lamott
Image
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
Anne Lamott
Image
It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.
Anne Lamott
Image
Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)
Anne Lamott
Image
I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
Anne Lamott
Image
You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
Anne Lamott
Image
Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
Anne Lamott
Image
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
Anne Lamott
Image
Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
Anne Lamott
Image
It's better to be kind than to be right.
Anne Lamott
Image
The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
Anne Lamott
Image
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.
Anne Lamott
Image
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
Anne Lamott
Image
Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
Anne Lamott
Image
Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
Anne Lamott