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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ae74fa4 | Redefinition is a nightmare--we think we've arrived, in our nice Pottery Barn boxes, and that this or that is true. Then something happens that totally sucks, and we are in a new box, and it is like changing into clothes that don't fit, that we hate. Yet the essence remains. Essence is malleable, fluid. Everything we lose is Buddhist truth--one more thing that you don't have to grab with your death grip, and protect from theft or decay. It'.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 69f715a | We, too, are shadow and light. We are not supposed to know this, or be all these different facets of humanity, bright and dark. We are raised to be bright and shiny, but there is meaning in the acceptance of our dusky and dappled side, and also in defiance. | Anne Lamott | ||
| d36420a | You can't find your true voice and peer behind the door and report honestly and clearly to us if your parents are reading over your shoulder. They are probably the ones who told you not to open that door in the first place. You can tell if you they're there because a small voice will say, 'Oh, whoops, don't say that, that's a secret,' or 'That's a bad work,' or 'Don't tell anyone you jack off. They'll all start doing it.' So you have to bre.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| dd637f9 | It was never meant to be permanent. You must have known the tide would come back in. | Anne Lamott | ||
| be1fe0f | This family business can be so stressful - difficult, damaged people showing up t spend time with other difficult, damanged people | Anne Lamott | ||
| 4d40fdd | I knew to put on my favorite earrings. Sometimes you start with the outside and you get it right. You tend to your spirit through the body. | Anne Lamott | ||
| a67783e | One rarely knows where to begin the search for meaning, though by necessity, we can only start where we are. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 213c2e2 | Sometimes love does not look like what you had in mind. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 5aeca37 | Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer--the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That's all you need. | light heart crack mail phone | Anne Lamott | |
| c6c245f | One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness. | laughter secret life tribe holiness | Anne Lamott | |
| 0fd6908 | Life is not a submarine. | Anne Lamott | ||
| bd8c796 | by the great Persian mystical poet Rumi: "Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure." | Anne Lamott | ||
| 22f5e40 | if you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. | writing | Anne Lamott | |
| 819efb0 | How alive am I willing to be? | living | Anne Lamott | |
| d3a702b | good news is that we're all doomed, and you can give up any sense of control. Resistance is futile. Many things are going to get worse and weaker, especially democracy and the muscles in your upper arms. Most deteriorating conditions, though, will have to do with your family, the family in which you were raised and your current one. A number of the best people will have died, badly, while the worst thrive. The younger middle-aged people str.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 7be186d | Anything that leaves you more fearful, more isolated, more disconnected from other people, more full of judgment or self-hatred, is not of God, does not follow the Rule of Love--and you should stop doing it. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3bb843e | Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily more profound, but there was a struggle going on inside me to find some sort of creative or spiritual or aesthetic way of seeing the world and organizing it in my head. | thoughts writing | Anne Lamott | |
| aa4da85 | Additionally, I have spent approximately 1,736 hours of this one precious life waiting for the man to finish and pretending that felt good. And I want a refund. | Anne Lamott | ||
| bc396ae | She said that sometimes she uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending. | Anne Lamott | ||
| dbb297d | Imagining God can be so different from wishful thinking, if your spiritual experiences change your behavior over time. Have you become more generous, which is the ultimate healing? Or more patient, which is a close second? Did your world become bigger and juicier and more tender? Have you become ever so slightly kinder to yourself? This is how you tell. | Anne Lamott | ||
| fd0a8a4 | You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled. Who knew? | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3615b26 | More than any other sentence I have ever come across, I love Ram Dass's line that when all is said and done, we are all just walking each other home. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 188665d | When you love something like reading--or drawing or music or nature--it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great. If you are lucky enough to know this, then your search for meaning involves whatever that Something is. It's an alchemical blend of affinity and focus that takes us to a place within that feels as close as we ever get to "home." It's like pulling into our own train station after a long trip--joy, relief, a ple.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8db806d | And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like a child at an aquarium that was thought to be without fish. Others will step of the shadows like Boo Radley and make you catch your breath or take a step backward. They're often so rich, these unbidden thoughts, and so clear that they feel indelible. But I sa.. | writer writing authoring book-ideas getting-an-idea writing-ideas write idea ideas | Anne Lamott | |
| 700181d | The writer Anne Lamott says, "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."28" | Parker J. Palmer | ||
| 33a3255 | Being human can be so dispiriting. It is a real stretch for me a lot of the time. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 089b62b | If you're not enough before the gold medal, you won't be enough with it. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f2a493a | Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these years. | motherhood kids grandparents grandmother | Anne Lamott | |
| ce2516b | It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe.... | reckless-driving rules-of-the-universe speeding | Craig Ferguson | |
| 95a6d14 | I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again. | directing never-again desperation | Craig Ferguson | |
| 5cf0bcf | The work of atonement took place in the presence of the God of heaven. Indeed, it involved a transaction within the fellowship of the persons of the eternal Trinity in their love for us: the Son was willing, with the aid of the Spirit, to experience the hiding of the Father's face. The shedding of the blood of God's Son opened the way to God for us (Acts 20:28). That is both the horror and the glory of our Great High Priest's ministry. Terr.. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| a2aede2 | As the early church fathers delighted in saying, Christ took what was ours so that we might receive what was His. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 249ebee | There's something about putting words on a page in private that makes me feel powerful in public. | writing | Mitali Perkins | |
| ae4b482 | Woah! Lina, you look . . ." Thomas's jaw literally dropped. But then he noticed Howard looking at him like he was a deer during hunting season and he quickly cleared his throat. "Sorry. Nice dress. You look really pretty." "You look nice too." Gray fitted suit. Hair styled messily. I could practically hear Addie spontaneously combusting from here." | Jenna Evans Welch | ||
| 7590647 | It occurs to me that if I do survive, I'll carry a new revelation with me for the rest of my days: we leave this life the way we enter it-totally alone, bereft. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 28ce1ae | It's the beautiful thing about youth. There's a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential. I | Blake Crouch | ||
| c96f680 | I feel the wind in my face as I ride in the bed of an old pickup truck down a country road at night, dust swirling red in the taillights and the entire span of my life yawning out ahead of me. It's the beautiful thing about youth. There's a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 64d0736 | There's a theory in the field of aesthetics called the uncanny valley. It holds that when something looks almost like a human being--a mannequin or humanlike robot--it creates revulsion in the observer, because the appearance is so close to human, yet just off enough to evoke a feeling of uncanniness, of something that is both familiar and alien. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 86014d4 | Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse? | Blake Crouch | ||
| f0e30da | deflating. Then empty. His diaphragm relaxed. He counted to three and squeezed the trigger. The British-made AWM bucked hard against his shoulder, the report dampened by the suppressor. Recovering from the recoil, he found his target in the sphere of magnification, still crouched on a flat-topped boulder on the floor of the canyon. Damn. He'd missed. It was a longer shot than he normally took, and so many | Blake Crouch | ||
| 846b1c0 | midmorning. The sky steel blue and not a cloud in sight. His perch was atop a thirty-foot guard tower that had been built on the rocky pinnacle of a mountain, far above the timberline. From the open platform, he had a panoramic view of the surrounding peaks, the canyon, the forest, and the town of Wayward Pines, which from four thousand feet above, was little more than a grid of intersecting streets, couched in a protected valley. His radio.. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 4247821 | Life with a cheat code isn't life. Our existence isn't something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That's what it is to be human--the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 4120f94 | On my own, the ordinariness of the moment is almost too much to stand. I glance around the restaurant, taking in the faces of the waiters, the customers. Two dozen noisy conversations mixing into a kind of meaningless roar. I think, What if you people knew what I knew? | Blake Crouch | ||
| eeaf7ad | I've always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We're all made of the same thing--the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars. I've just never felt that knowledge in my bones until that moment, there, with you. And it's because of you. | Blake Crouch |