Anne Lamott Quotes

We're never gonna survive unless we go a little crazy.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

Life moves forward, and you have to deal with whatever it throws at you.

There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

Just keep playing, mastering as you do the step Into disorder this one meant. Don't you see It's all we can do? Meanwhile, great fires Arise, as of haystacks aflame. The dial has been set And that's ominous, but all your graciousness in living Conspires with it, now that this is our home: A place to be from, and have people ask about.

You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.