Anne Lamott Quotes

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

I just can't relax. That's my problem.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

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

I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues. I always decide to spend it with friends. It's very nice.

I don't relax very well, and I find it hard to sit still.

We all need to relax more, but I don't find it easy.

It's very hard for me to relax.

I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.

Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.

I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.

I'm trying to relax, but it's hard.

Pleasure can also be a mirror of the anxiety we feel in everyday life, it can have a message inside.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed."

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.

He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.