Anne Lamott Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. ...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

2. Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

3. Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us. Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

4. I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child. Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

5. Laughter is carbonated holiness.

6. Niels Bohr wrote, ‘The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth can be another profound truth. Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

7. The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

8. Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.

9. 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.

10. It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

11. Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life