Anne Lamott Quotes

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

God, Same, Image

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

Understand, Leave, Grace

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Anne Lamott

Truth, Life, Good

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
Anne Lamott

Life, Friendship, Truth

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott

Work, Hope, Give

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
Anne Lamott

Eyes, Spring, Try

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
Anne Lamott

Hope, Everything, Give

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

Family, Ignorance, May

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
Anne Lamott

Beauty, Music, Great

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

Love, Children, Hard

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
Anne Lamott

Love, Faith, Women

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
Anne Lamott

Love, Nothing, Cry

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
Anne Lamott

Poor, Sweet, Loved

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Anne Lamott

Experience, Friendship, Best

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
Anne Lamott

Birthday, Makes, Won

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
Anne Lamott

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
Anne Lamott

Hope, Sometimes, Image

It's a great time to be alive.
Anne Lamott

Time, Great, Alive

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
Anne Lamott

Time, Nothing, Down

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
Anne Lamott

College, Graduate, Forgot

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
Anne Lamott

Beauty, Attention, Pay

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
Anne Lamott

Earth, Daughter, Devoted

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
Anne Lamott

Time, Good, Hope

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
Anne Lamott

Life, Faith, Words

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
Anne Lamott

Great, Mother, Bad

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 10, 1954

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