Quotes: Anne Lamott

"The best way to change the world is to change your mind, which often requires feeding yourself. It makes for biochemical peace. It's almost like a prayer: to be needy, to eat, to taste, to be filled, building up instead of tearing down. You find energy to do something you hadn't expected to do, maybe even one of the holiest things: to go outside and stand under the stars, or to go for a walk in the morning, or in such hard times, both."

–– Anne Lamott (b. 1954), American writer 

Source: Anne Lamott. Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith. New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Group), 2007; p. 252-253. 

via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2007, p. 93.

Quotes: Anne Lamott

"Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides." 

–– Anne Lamott (b. 1954), American writer 

via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 46-7.

Quotes: Anne Lamott

"I heard someone once say that grief is love that is homeless."

–– Anne Lamott (b. 1954), American writer 

Source: Anne Lamott. Somehow: Thoughts on Love. New York: Random House, 2024; p. 170. 

via: Commonplace Book 2024, p. 11.

Quotes: Anne Lamott

"Curiosity leads to wonder and wonder is a cousin to love. Wonder is why we're here." 

–– Anne Lamott (b. 1954), American writer 

Source: Anne Lamott. Somehow: Thoughts on Love. New York: Random House, 2024; p. 171. 

via: Commonplace Book 2024, p. 11.

Quotes: Anne Lamott

"Expectations are resentments under construction."

–– Anne Lamott (b. 1954), American writer 

via 2020 Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook, 2024 p. 45. 

Creativity quotes: Anne Lamott

"Half of creativity is taking stuff out." 

–– Anne Lamott (b. 1954), American writer

 

Source: Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird with Annie: A Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott documentary, 1998.