Anne Lamott Quotes about Inspiring

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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.

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

Inspiring, Hope, Giving Up

Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.23, Anchor

To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.

Anne Lamott

Inspiring, Sexy, Love You

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

Anne Lamott

Inspiring, Funny Inspirational, Children

Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

Anne Lamott

Inspiring, Feet, Looks

Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.112, Anchor

Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?

Anne Lamott

Inspiring, Sweet, Giving Up

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

Anne Lamott

Inspiring, Mothers Day, Gay