Anne Lamott Quotes About Home

• But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Home, Voice

• Hay dos cosas que me animan a dar. Una es que he llegado a considerar a todas las personas con las que tengo contacto como pacientes de urgencias. Veo muchas heridas abiertas y expresiones aturdidas. O, como dijo Marianne Moore: "El mundo es el hogar de un huérfano". Y esto me parece más cierto que casi cualquier otra cosa que conozca. Pero a muchos de nosotros nos puede aliviar la escritura: piensa en cuántas veces has abierto un libro, has leído una línea y has dicho: "¡Sí!". Y yo también quiero dar a la gente esa sensación, de conexión, de comunicación.

  Anne Lamott

  Libro, Comunicación, Inicio

• If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)

  Anne Lamott

  Taken, Home, Listening

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.66, Anchor

• I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world.

  Anne Lamott

  Home, Self, Mind

• For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

  Anne Lamott

  Home, Years, Twenties

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.200, Anchor

• So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?"

  Anne Lamott

  Father, Philosophy, Eye

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.21, Anchor

• Hago por mí exactamente lo que haría por ti: prepararme una taza de té, un baño caliente o comprarme un par de calcetines fabulosos. Hago cosas cariñosas por mí, me acaricio el hombro, me echo una siestecita, y entonces me doy cuenta de que soy una mujer salvaje y preciosa, un mero ser humano, como decía E. Cummings, que merece respeto, ternura, protección, placer y solidaridad. Y así es como me siento ahora en casa.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Home, Naps

  Fuente: www.cosmopolitan.com

• All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

  Anne Lamott

  Pain, Grief, Home

• I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.

  Anne Lamott

  Home, Dark, People

  Entrevista con Austin Allen, bigthink.com. 6 de abril de 2010.

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