Anne Lamott Quotes

I am constantly nice to people. Sometimes they don't deserve it.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Compassion knows that choosing the higher road in any situation is the most loving option for you.

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Above all, there is Mother. She taught me how to love, how to have respect for other people.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.

I am very patient. I take pride in being patient with my husband, my children, my grandchildren.

As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.

We need to be a bit kinder and more aware of what is really important.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

I think we're all trying our hardest, and a lot of times we do bad things and need to do more good things. We need to be more caring, more forgiving, more loving.

New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.

We are in this world to learn and embody compassion and love.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)