Feel Quotes

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

Anne Lamott

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It's a great time to be alive.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Time Great Alive

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

Anne Lamott

Tags: God Just Way

I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Relationship Humor Very

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

Anne Lamott

Tags: Birthday You About

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

Anne Lamott

Tags: People Know Than

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

Tags: Christmas Every She

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Time You About

I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Just Love Try

I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Just Get Much

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.

Anne Lamott

Tags: God You People

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Best Out Then

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

Anne Lamott

Tags: About Love How

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Because Would Then

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

Anne Lamott

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Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Family People Really

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

Tags: More Out Up

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Anne Lamott

Tags: You People Like

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Our Going Which

I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Me Would Love

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

Tags: God Faith You

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Fear Peace Up

Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

Anne Lamott

Tags: God You Think

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

Anne Lamott

Tags: People Know Love

Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Me Out First

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Every Loved Second

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Funny Me Out

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

Anne Lamott

Tags: You Like Get

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.

Anne Lamott

Tags: Great People Who