Anne Lamott Quotes

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.

It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'

They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid.

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

Home is like my detox: it's what keeps me grounded.

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

I found that quiet place in my home that is my place of refuge. I don't care if you got kids or if you are married. You got to find that one place that is your everybody-off-limit place: unless this place is on fire, or you need to go to the emergency room, don't disturb me. You can go to this place and cleanse, meditate, let God speak to you.

When I'm home, I'm relaxed.

Home is your sanctuary.

Temple of Peace

I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.

I need my outdoors, my comfort.

No matter what happens, I can go back to the mountains. I have nature and my wonderful friends and neighbors. I get so much by being there.

Nothing will make a place feel unlike home like chaos.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.