Anne Lamott Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

  Anne Lamott

  Motivational, Book, Reading

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.15, Anchor

• 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

  Stars, Spring, Moon

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.145, Penguin

• I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

• All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same things I needed as a baby - to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled. Who knew?

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Lonely, Dirty

  "Eating Healthy: Habits To Help You Live a Life That Satisfies the Soul" By Anne Lamott, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

• I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.

  Anne Lamott

  Stars, Energy, Noses

• Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.

  Anne Lamott

  Falling In Love, Feet, People

• The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Feet, Tears

• Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

  Anne Lamott

  Mind, Weight, Earth

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.49, Penguin

• So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Lying, Mean

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

• I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.

  Anne Lamott

  Son, Earth, Remember

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.139, Penguin

• We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Sibling, Mean

• I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

  Anne Lamott

  Daughter, Mother, Earth

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.232, Penguin

• The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

  Anne Lamott

  Rocks, Hands, Roots

• This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.

  Anne Lamott

  Cain, Earth, Abel

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

  Anne Lamott

  Life, Earth, Way

  Anne Lamott (1997). “Rosie: A Novel”, Penguin Books

• All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

  Anne Lamott

  Pain, Grief, Home

• Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

• All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Lonely, Earth

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