Anne Lamott Quotes About Blessings

Quotes about: Blessings

• Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.

  Anne Lamott

  Dream, Pain, Heart

• If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

  Anne Lamott

  Uplifting, Ocean, Blessing

• Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.

  Anne Lamott

  Healing, Blessing, Progress

• Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Sweet, Giving Up

• The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

  Anne Lamott

  Blessing, Giving, Delusional

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.121, Anchor

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