Anne Lamott best Family Quotes – “I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.”
Anne Lamott best Faith Quotes – “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.”
Anne Lamott best Faith Quotes – “My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.”
Anne Lamott best Death Quotes – “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.”
Anne Lamott best Christmas Quotes – “My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.”
Anne Lamott best Birthday Quotes – “Some people won’t go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.”
Anne Lamott best Birthday Quotes – “The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you’re only as well as you are.”
Anne Lamott best Beauty Quotes – “If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.”
Anne Lamott best Beauty Quotes – “Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.”
Anne Lamott best Amazing Quotes – “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.”
Anne Lamott best Alone Quotes – “Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.”
Anne Lamott best Age Quotes – “Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I’ve already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.”