Anne Lamott Quotes

• 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

• You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don’t want them out of guilt, and I don’t want them if you’re not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chocolate, Flowers

• We can’t understand when we’re pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time – like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Genes, Younger

• These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Pride, Move

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

  Anne Lamott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shock, Celebrating

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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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