Anne Lamott Quotes

Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.

I am very busy. I work hard all the time. But I also need to relax; I need to disconnect. That's why I like horse-racing, spending time with my friends. It helps me to recover energy.

I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.

Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.

It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.

You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.

For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

There's something fun about the road because there's no 9 to 5. But I do find myself making the effort to take some time off. As much as I don't want to, I have to. I need to reset. I love weeks off, because I can go in the studio and just be creative again.

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.

I'm very good at having time off. I tend to take whole years off - I had 1994 and 1997 off. I find it very easy; I just love pottering around doing normal things.

I strive to be my best every time I go out, and that's very stressful. After a while of doing that... it's nice to just take a deep breath, sit on a tractor.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

If I'm filming, and I have a day off, I'll just sit at home, read, take baths, chill out, and not go anywhere.