Anne Lamott Quotes

It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

To me, the soul is a part of us that never dies. It's what we come in with.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.

The soul never grows old.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

Your heart is the face of your spirit, it holds everything you have been, you are, and what you are going to be.

There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about "saving our soul."

Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!

The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.

... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.