Anne Lamott Quotes.

1. "Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."
- Quote by Anne Lamott

2. "You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp."
- Quote by Anne Lamott

3. "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
- Quote by Anne Lamott

4. "Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past."
- Quote by Anne Lamott

5. "I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us."
- Quote by Anne Lamott

6. "You can either practice being right or practice being kind."
- Quote by Anne Lamott

7. "Your problem is how you are going to spend this one 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 circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."
- Quote by Anne Lamott

8. "I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish."
- Quote by Anne Lamott

9. "Laughter is carbonated holiness."
- Quote by Anne Lamott

10. "I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right."
- Quote by Anne Lamott