Anne Lamott Quotes

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.

Intimacy is healing.

To me, love means being free of your own bondage and connecting to another soul.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.