Anne Lamott Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and don’t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I don’t know why it’s not more like it is in the movies, why things don’t come out neatly and lessons can’t be learned when you’re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such motley packaging.

  Anne Lamott

  Mistake, Fall, Heart

• You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

  Anne Lamott

  Badass, Mistake, Women

  "Becoming the Person You Were Meant to Be: Where to Start" by Anne Lamott, www.oprah.com.

• You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

  Anne Lamott

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Who You Are

  "Becoming the Person You Were Meant to Be: Where to Start" by Anne Lamott, www.oprah.com.

• Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Loyalty, Disappointment, Betrayal

• God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Crazy, Mistake

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.101, Penguin

• My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

  Anne Lamott

  Mistake, Decision, Needs

• My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

  Anne Lamott

  Teacher, Mistake, People

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.11, Penguin

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