Anne Lamott Quotes

I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

While we breathe, we will hope.

In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first thing and the last thing! You try it. . . For no reason! Because there is no reason. Simply, you are again there, still alive - it is a miracle!

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

Life is stronger than death.

I'm still alive, which is pretty cool.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

I'm not going to disappear.

While there is life, there is hope.

I'm alive. That's a good thing.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

I work to stay alive.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Survival is triumph enough.

To hunger is to be alive and to hope.

Those who live are those who fight.

While there's life, there's hope.

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

Since I had cancer I've realised that every day is a bonus.