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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ec5e8f1 | Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. God tells Job, who wants an explanation for all his troubles, "You wouldn't understand." And we don't understand a lot of things. But we learn that people are very disappointing, and that they break our hearts, and that very sweet people will be b.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| adf18ea | San Quentin's is the safest beach in the world. We're not talking about lifeguards here who might yell at someone who's being rude-we're talking about armed guards, in watchtowers, two blocks away. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 9d44dd4 | I was frozen like in a dream when your feet weigh fifty pounds each and the danger is almost upon you. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 225d9ce | Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was great to see, and it hurt like hell. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 73bc196 | There is cracks, cracks, in everything, that's how the light gets in.' I had cracks but not the hope. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8db5066 | It can be too sad here. We so often lose our way. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 92d3c4c | This is how we make important changes-- barely, poorly, slowly. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 2de6f68 | It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3fd299b | I bet I'm beginning to make some parents nervous - here I am, bragging of being a dropout, and unemployable, and about to make a pitch for you to follow your creative dreams, when what parents want is for their children to do well in their field, to make them look good, and maybe also to assemble a tasteful fortune . . . But that is not your problem. Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been is.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| ddb1d95 | She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91) | irony | Anne Lamott | |
| 7fd6013 | I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life. | life secret | Anne Lamott | |
| cccdcb5 | My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because mercy made me look vulnerable and foolish, and it made me less productive. | Anne Lamott | ||
| a3a80c2 | Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 27c0ca2 | The Dalai Lama said that "religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table." | Anne Lamott | ||
| 9e19a44 | Mercy means that we no longer constantly judge everybody's large and tiny failures, foolish hearts, dubious convictions, and inevitable bad behavior. We will never do this perfectly, but how do we do it better? | Anne Lamott | ||
| d57ae45 | when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born--and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 4fad635 | What you're looking for is already inside you..You can't buy it, lease it, rent it, date it, or apply for it. The best job in the world can't give it to you. Neither can success, or fame, or financial security. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 442132c | Books! To fling myself into a book, to be carried away to another world while being at my most grounded, on my butt or in my bed or favorite chair is literally how I have survived being here at all. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 1a445b1 | What seems true is that something in life, on the highways or in our hearts, is always being installed, or being repaired, or being torn down for the next installation. | Anne Lamott | ||
| a4b2144 | I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don't love--until a few years ago, I had no idea that you could have cellulite on your stomach--but not only do I get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side. Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? You bet I would. That is why it's such a blessing that I'm not left to my.. | aging grace women | Anne Lamott | |
| ed43814 | Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate straits. Mercy is not deserved. It involves absolving the unabsolvable, forgiving the unforgivable. Mercy brings us to the miracle of apology, given and accepted, to unashamed humility when we have erred or forgotten. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 07a1669 | Grace to me is a little bit of extra help when you're feeling stuck or doomed or, probably, hopefully, out of good ideas on how to save yourself, and how to salvage the situation or the friendship or the whatever it is," Anne Lamott once told me. "I wish it was accompanied by harp music so you could know that's what was happening, but for me it's that extra pause or that extra breath or that extra minute's patience against all odds." On tha.. | god-s-grace god-s-love grace grace-of-god ireland | Cathleen Falsani | |
| 2f45de4 | I like to believe that there is an extra warm corner of hell for these fuckers who traffic in emotional misery. | Craig Ferguson | ||
| 69db0cc | My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it. | humor marriage | Craig Ferguson | |
| 556d9a4 | Hey dawg, wassup?" he said, in the strange way that white talent agents from Los Angeles do in an attempt to sound like young black men from underprivileged backgrounds. A linguistic fashion as peculiar as the lisp that everybody in medieval Spain had to adopt after the king developed a speech impediment." | Craig Ferguson | ||
| 8596917 | Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself. | friendship rehab self-awareness | Craig Ferguson | |
| f55a7c9 | Yes, people will tell us they believe in a "God of love." But they are self-deceived, and their lives reveal it. They neither love Him with heart, soul, mind, and strength in return, nor do they worship Him with zeal and energy. The truth is that their mantra "My God is a God of love" is a smokescreen, a phantasm of their imagination. Underneath it all is a deep mistrust of God--otherwise, why not yield the whole of life in joyful abandon t.. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| d532db9 | True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others! | faith | Sinclair B. Ferguson | |
| 38dc3c8 | She wasn't there. He wouldn't have had to look too closely. She stood out from others like an angel in hell or a rose in a sewer. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| d9dc660 | insults were exchanged, but never conversation" (p.17)." | Evan Thomas | ||
| 1a70df6 | Because no matter what had happened in the past, in this harrowing present, everybody needed everybody. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 6319a25 | That's what it is to be human--the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 39c2dc8 | This low point isn't the book of your life. It's just a chapter. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 80a042b | If there are a million ponds out there, with versions of you and me living similar and different lives, there's none better than right here, right now. I'm more sure of that than anything in the world. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 0d08215 | In the world we came from, our existence was so easy. And so full of discontent because it was so easy. How do you find meaning when you're one of seven billion? When food, clothing, everything you need is just one Walmart away? When we numb our minds to sleep on all manner of screens and HD entertainment, the meaning of life, of our existence and purpose, becomes lost. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 8bd0eec | My life is great. It's just not exceptional. And there was a time when it could have been." "You killed your ambition, didn't you?" "It died of natural causes. Of neglect." | Blake Crouch | ||
| ef35a0b | They say all art--whether books, music, or visual--is a reaction to other art. | Blake Crouch | ||
| da82568 | There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least, in one's own life, and a personal, trivial immortality of an old self assured. | memoir travel writing | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 191ad46 | We walk up the beach under the stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim. This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy--even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 72ca9d8 | Most American view World War II nostalgically as the "good war," in which the United States and its allies triumphed over German Nazism, Italian fascism, and Japanese militarism. The rest of the world remembers it as the bloodiest war in human history. By the time it was over, more than 60 million people lay dead, including 27 million Russians, between 10 million and 20 million Chinese, 6 million Jews, 5.5 million Germans, 3 million non-Jew.. | Oliver Stone | ||
| 3748eb8 | How did men manage to offer a compliment that transitioned from sweet to utterly salacious in the span of a few words? | Chloe Neill | ||
| 415595a | You're my world," he said, putting down the glass. "You're mine to protect." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 9324d3a | Because I love you. Because love, to some, is a weakness. A pressure point. Because I would give up anything for you, including the GP. And because I don't mean to give up either. | Chloe Neill | ||
| b585ee1 | I accept that he has a past. I wasn't a saint before we met." She slid me a glance. "I wasn't." "You were a nerdy English lit student; you were as close as it gets without beatification." -- | merit | Chloe Neill |