Write about your childhoods, I tell them for the umpteenth time. Write about that time in your life when you were so intensely interested in the world, when your powers of observation were at their most acute, when you felt things so deeply. Exploring and understanding your childhood will give you the ability to empathize, and that understanding and empathy will teach you to write with intelligence and insight and compassion.

— Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott Quotes

I have actually come to believe that a person being herself is beautiful – that contentment and acceptance and freedom are beautiful.

— Anne Lamott

Some characters in fiction and our families exist as levers, to turn everything upside down and thereby knock out of the park some of our old presumptions, pretensions, convictions, and illusions of safety. These people, both in fiction and at the holiday table, tend to be annoying and on the margins.

— Anne Lamott

Forget letting go and letting God. It was time for brooding, stewing, victimized self-righteousness, and thoughts of revenge. Now you’re talking.

— Anne Lamott

Besides, those few people who aren’t a mess are probably good for about twenty minutes of dinner conversation.

— Anne Lamott

We live stitch by stitch, when we’re lucky.

— Anne Lamott

Every day we’re in the grip of the impossible conundrum: the truth that it’s over in a blink, and we may be near the end, and that we have to live as if it’s going to be okay, no matter what.

— Anne Lamott

We cannot arrange lasting safety or happiness for our most beloved people. They have to find their own ways, their own answers.

— Anne Lamott

Hospice is the Calvary, Hospice means death is not going to be nearly as bad as you think.

— Anne Lamott

Play is also part of developing trust. Play opens the heart and gives delight and focus, like an abacus did when we were young.

— Anne Lamott

God’s joy moves from unmarked box to unmarked box, from cell to cell. As rainwater, down into flowerbed. As roses, up from ground. Now it looks like a plate of rice and fish, now a cliff covered with vines, now a horse being saddled. It hides within these, till one day it cracks them open.

— Anne Lamott

You can’t logically get from where we were to where we are now. I think that is what they mean by grace.

— Anne Lamott

As the mystics would have us believe, “As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul.

— Anne Lamott

Deep is so un-American now, even radical. We live too often like water skeeters on the surface of the pond, dropping down for a quick bite of insect or e-mail. Deep is the realm of soul.

— Anne Lamott

There is still something to be said for painting portraits of the people we have loved, for trying to express those moments that seem so inexpressibly beautiful, the ones that change us and deepen us.

— Anne Lamott

It turns out that welcome is solidarity. We’re glad you’re here, and we’re with you. This whole project called you being alive, you finding joy? Well, we’re in on that.

— Anne Lamott

Contrary to my upbringing, the bigger, more real, and friendlier the world inside me becomes, the safer I feel in the outside world.

— Anne Lamott

Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you soften, can wake you up. But publishing won’t do any of those things; you’ll never get in that way.

— Anne Lamott

We think that if our values aren’t the correct ones, we would have other ones, which would then be the correct ones.

— Anne Lamott

Do we play anymore, step away from tasks, duties, and habits with curiosity? Tread carefully: if you are not vigilant, this may lead to wonder, which is joy, which every fear in you knows will lead to job failure and lost revenue.

— Anne Lamott

Gratitude is seeing how someone changed your heart and quality of life, helped you become the good parts of the person you are.

— Anne Lamott
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