black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.

Anne Lamott

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
ANNE LAMOTT

Comfortable Empty Faith Light Mess Return
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
ANNE LAMOTT

Better People Story Warm Writing Yourself
I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
ANNE LAMOTT

Law Myself Reminder Right Spirit
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
ANNE LAMOTT

Explanation Hard Health Human Live Message Privilege Suffering
Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
ANNE LAMOTT

Creation Expression Search Time Writing
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Difference God Thinking Yourself
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
ANNE LAMOTT

Delicate Heart Myself Soul Stand Thinking
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
ANNE LAMOTT

Drink God Myself Thinking
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
ANNE LAMOTT

Experience Grace Resolution Strength Wind Yourself
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTT

Compare Side Yourself
Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
ANNE LAMOTT

Drink Myself Start Struggle Thinking Time
Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Need Water Woman Yourself
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

Assumption God Hate Image People Safety Yourself
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
ANNE LAMOTT

Different Grace Universe Yourself
A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
ANNE LAMOTT

Better Deal End Goodness Marriage People Yourself

Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Anne Lamott Quotes