Anne Lamott Quotes

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

The things you cannot change you can't waste your time on.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Time brings all things to pass.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

I have realised that my time has come and gone. I'm not bitter, just a realist.

I believe there is a time for everything. Time changes, and you need to accept that. Else, you stagnate.

Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.

Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your clinging is not going to change the law of life. Your clinging is only going to make you miserable. Things are bound to change; whether you cling or not does not matter. If you cling you become miserable: you cling and they change, you feel frustrated. If you don't cling they still change, but then there is no frustration because you were perfectly aware that they are bound to change. This is how things are, this is the suchness of life.

Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments are temporary. Nothing lasts forever.

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.