Anne Lamott Quotes

Anne Lamott is an American author known for her insightful and humorous writings on topics such as faith, spirituality, and personal growth. She has authored several bestselling books, including "Bird by Bird" and "Operating Instructions," and her work has resonated with readers around the world, offering wisdom and encouragement in navigating the complexities of life.

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.

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.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as... -Anne Lamott

I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

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.

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is our... -Anne Lamott

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I ... -Anne Lamott

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.... -Anne Lamott

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.

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.

Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

The worst part about celebrating another birthday ... -Anne Lamott

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you ... -Anne Lamott

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

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.

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