Anne Lamott Quotes

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

I'm happy about who and what I am - and I can't wait to find out who I'll be tomorrow.

You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

I've learned that it's important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner.

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.

At this point of my life, I'm 32 and I feel sexier than ever because you know what you want.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.