Anne Lamott Quotes

Everyone needs help from everyone else.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

I think we're here for each other.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

No one person is an island.

You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.

Offer your strengths to others and you'll be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you.

Every man should esteem his neighbor as himself.

People exist for one another.

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.

Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.