Anne Lamott Quotes

I am always amazed that so many people are concerned with wanting to be what they are not;What is the point of making yourself look ridiculous? You don't always have to pretend to be strong,there is no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,you shouldn't be concerned about what other people are thinking. Cry if you need to,it's good to cry out all your tears,because only then you will be able to smile again.

I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting to let go of the feeling that I need to push myself to do things I don't want to do - an impulse that has always been linked to the feeling that I'm not enough.

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

Affirm: I now willingly release all negative beliefs about myself, my life and all other people. I now forgive myself for thinking I ever did anything wrong. I am now filled with the love and the Power that I am. For this I am so grateful! And so it is!

I'm in a position where it doesn't matter what people think of me now.

Be not the slave of your own past.

We all have our demons. When we finally learn to let them go, we get to live and be free.

I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying my best every day to throw that away.

There had to be a point where I had to stop feeling sorry for myself.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, “It’s okay.” It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s ok to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on.

There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with that advice.

I had been in a place where I was letting too many people dictate who I should be and what I should be, and I was trying to make everybody happy to the point where it was just killing me. I'd completely lost myself. It's kind of funny now that people think I've completely changed myself for Marilyn Manson, when this is actually the first time in my life that I took a stand and said, "This is who I am and this is who I've always wanted to be, and I'm finally with somebody who lets me be who I want to be."

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

There's times when I'm really shy, so these roles that I get to play, they're how I would love to really be. And that's why I love doing stand-up, because it gives me the freedom to say what I really want to say. I think that's why it's my favorite thing to do.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.

... I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.