Anne Lamott Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Joy is the best makeup.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Beauty, Makeup

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.63, Penguin

• I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Thinking, Light

  "Growing into grace". Interview, www.washingtontimes.com. March 5, 2008.

• What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Thinking, Light

  "Help, Thanks, Wow". Book by Anne Lamott, June 20, 2013.

• And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Lying, Moving

  "Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year". Book by Anne Lamott, 1993.

• Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.

  Anne Lamott

  Gratitude, Mean, Heart

  "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers". Book by Anne Lamott, November 13, 2012.

• Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

  Anne Lamott

  Gratitude, Joy, Understanding

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.295, Penguin

• Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.

  Anne Lamott

  Makeup, Joy, Littles

• You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Hard Work, Persistence

• These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

  Anne Lamott

  Moving, Pride, Joy

• Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

  Anne Lamott

  Feet, Joy, April

• Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

  Anne Lamott

  Joy, Magic, Forgiving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.193, Anchor

• I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.

  Anne Lamott

  Voice, Joy, Feelings

• Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.

  Anne Lamott

  Gratitude, Heart, Joy

  "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers". Book by Anne Lamott, www.pbs.org. 2012.

• Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

  Anne Lamott

  Joy, Parent, And Love

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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