Anne Lamott Quotes

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other.

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a little brotherhood.

Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

We forget some of the oldest medicines we have are love and compassion, and they can be deployed by everyone.

If one person reaches out to me, who am I not to reach back? Even if it takes me a year to reply, they do get that message and they feel it.

Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.

I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood. We all want that, deep down inside - and writing a book is a great way to make sense of your own experience and to share it with others.

Listening is one of the forms of love.

She was a genius at listening.

We don’t need a speaker; we need a listener!

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

We all have that capacity to reach out to people we don't even know and care about them ...

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

It's always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage.