Anne Lamott Quotes

Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Just being aware of what you are about to do greatly diminishes the tendency to do what you don't want to. You will pull your hand back from that pizza slice, tell the waitress that you are passing on dessert, put on your gym shoes instead of going under the comforter, and take several deep breaths instead of screaming at your daughter.

Humility is attentive patience.

Spend enough time wrangling a toddler, and you get good at being kind but firm. Like your child, you must be doggedly single-minded when it matters.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know that if I didn't go running, I wouldn't go the next day either. It's not in human nature to take unnecessary burdens upon oneself, so one's body soon becomes disaccustomed. It mustn't do that. It's the same with writing. I write every day so that my mind doesn't become disaccustomed.

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!

I didn't dare let my mind wander off.

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.