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Anne Lamott Quotes - Page 25

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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

Jesus, Way, Goodness

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

Waiting, Way, Always Waiting

And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

Mind, Trying, Quiet

Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.6, Anchor

I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.

Crazy, Mind, Machines

Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.99, Anchor

He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.

Tea, Yogurt, Baptists

Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.15, Penguin

Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003

Feet, April, Breathe

If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

Laughing, Want, Plans

Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.76, Anchor

The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who have some psychological healing to lean up against, and gorgeous lives. All writers think that this time, the jig is up, and they will be exposed as frauds.

Healing, Thinking, Two

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

Kids, Sunday, Night

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

Hurt, Teenager, Tough

Anne Lamott (2010). “Imperfect Birds: A Novel”, p.12, Penguin

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.

Mother, Believe, America

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

Mother, Strong, Perspective

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

Grandparent, Church, Sometimes

Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.11, Anchor

What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?

People, Creative, What If

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

Fiction, Fiction And Nonfiction, Nonfiction

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Pieces, Four, Nonfiction

Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.

Glasses, Heaven, Pairs

Anne Lamott (2017). “Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy”, p.10, Penguin

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

Writing, People, World

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

Men, Entrepreneur, Calling

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

Home, Years, Twenties

Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.200, Anchor

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

Grace, Stitches, Hem

Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.48, Penguin

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

Forever, News, Take Me

I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath, or go buy myself a fabulous pair of socks. I believe that you take the action, and THEN the insight follows - I do loving things for me, stroke my own shoulder, put myself down for a short nap, and the insight follows: that I am a wild precious woman, a human merely being, as e e cummings put it, deserving of respect, tenderness, protection, delight, and solidarity. And that is what Home looks like for me now.

Believe, Home, Naps

Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women and men in the face of this? Why do we let ourselves be so distracted and obsessed by meaningless B.S. in light of having one short, precious life? When are we going to wake up and be fully alive to each other and nature and magic and wonder and Life with a capital L? When will we stop hitting the snooze button? And then, how alive are we willing to be?

Hate, Men, Light

Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

Children, Heart, Soul

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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