Anne Lamott Quotes

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

Every challenge has its own unique problems.

Rules are simply obstacles to be jumped, like in a horse race: higher and higher every time.

We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.

Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

Liberty is the absence of impediments—barriers.

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.

If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.

Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

We don't have any problems, apart from the problems we have.

I started adding up all the things I couldn't do.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

restrictions create frustrations!

Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!