Anne Lamott Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

  Anne Lamott

  Dog, Knowing, Sides

• Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look at that dirty dog! Look at that burned-down house! Look at that red sky!’ And the child points, and you look, and you see, and you start going, ‘Wow! Look at that huge crazy hedge! Look at that teeny little baby! Look at the scary dark cloud!’ I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world – present and in awe.

  Anne Lamott

  Dog, Baby, Children

• My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.

  Anne Lamott

  Dog, Cat, Rainy Day

• I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Dog, Lying

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

• My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.

  Anne Lamott

  Dog, Feelings, Contentment

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.30, Anchor

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