Anne Lamott Quotes About Inspirational
-
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
→ -
Joy is the best makeup.
→ -
Hope begins in the dark.
→ -
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.
→ -
Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
→ -
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.
→ -
There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.
→ -
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
→ -
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
→ -
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
→ -
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things running right. We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below. With that fact in mind, people like me make up all these rules to give us the illusion that we are in charge. I need to say to myself, they're not needed, hon. Just take in the buggy pleasures. Be kind to the others, grab the fleck of riverweed, notice how beautifully your bug legs scull.
→ -
We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
→ -
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
→
Related Authors
-
Barbara Brown Taylor Priest -
Rachel Held Evans Columnist -
Elizabeth Berg Writer -
Steven Pressfield Author -
William Zinsser Writer -
Donald Miller Author -
Ann Voskamp Author -
Cheryl Strayed Novelist -
Nadia Bolz-Weber Pastor -
Brené Brown Author -
Frederick Buechner Writer -
Natalie Goldberg Author -
Ann Patchett Author -
Julia Cameron Teacher -
Stephen King Author -
Elizabeth Gilbert Author -
Wendell Berry Novelist -
Sam Lamott Author -
Marianne Williamson Author -
Annie Dillard Author