Anne Lamott Quotes

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  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

  Topics in God, Humor, Religion, Spirituality, Truth

  Tags in Safely, Created

• 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

  Topics in Love

• The three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Truth

• When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Art

• For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of all.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Death

• Most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Inspirational

• The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Inspirational

• Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don’t get to meet some of the people who love God back.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in God

• I didn’t need to understand the hypo static unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in God

• We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Inspirational

• Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Hope

• Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Writing

• Laughter is carbonated holiness.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Inspirational, Laughter

• 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

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Illusion, Trying

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you’re never going to draw another complacent breath again… or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you’d learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Complacent, Draw

• 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.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Coming, Almost

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

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hot, Summer

• The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait – I didn’t intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Giants, Usually

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

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Whistle, Waiting

Anne Lamott (80)

Birth:	10th April, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Novelist, Teacher, Writer

About

Anne Lamott was born in San Francisco. She is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical. Marked by their self-deprecating humor and openness, Lamott's writings cover such subjects as alcoholism, single-motherhood, depression, and Christianity.  Her first published novel Hard Laughter was written for him after his diagnosis of brain cancer.

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