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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
“It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.”
“It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe 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.”
“The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.”
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”
“...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.”
“My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable”
“It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.”
“...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.”
“The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.”
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