WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
Ann Voskamp
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Life is never made unbearable by the road itself but by the way we bear the road. It’s not the hard roads that slay us; what actually slays us is the expectation that this road isn’t what we hoped it to be.”
“Buy the lie that your life is supposed to be heaven on earth, and suffering can be a torturous hell. But life is suffering, and suffering is but the cross we bear, part of earth’s topography to cross on our way to heaven. I wouldn’t know it for years: Screens sell pipe dreams. Every screen is trying to sell the lie to you—from Hollywood”
“to Netflix to Instagram—the lie that all you have to do is buy this, work out like this, wear this, style it like this, believe this, pursue this, get a career like this, find someone like this, and you, too, can find the way to a perfect life, just like this. But buy any perfectly filtered and marketing-framed illusion, and you end up painfully disillusioned. Regardless of what Instagram or all the glossy ads are shilling, your suffering isn’t some unique”
“that this road isn’t what we hoped it to be.”
“my heart takes the way of incurvatus in se, this curving in toward self—self-sufficiency, self-protection, self-comfort, self-interest. It’s the bent way of being human: We’re wired for attachment, for dependence on God, but our inclination toward incurvatus in se turns the direction of our dependence towards destructive things, and our attachments go awry. All addiction is an attachment in the wrong direction. Name your pain, name the way you try to make the pain go away, and you name your addiction. Name your default direction. Name the way you turn for comfort—a glass, a screen, a plate, a sweet, a drug, a page, a voice, a click, a hit, a rush, a bottle—go ahead and name what you curve to, to comfort your ache, and you name your Egypt that looks like ease.”
“being alive. Life is hard in a thousand ways, and what comes the easiest to us is getting lost.”
“anomaly; suffering is the universal experience of all humanity. Suffering doesn’t mean you’re cursed; suffering means you’re human. The question isn’t “Why is there suffering in my life?” but “Why wouldn’t there be suffering?” Because such is life in a broken world. The question is “What way will you bear your suffering?” I didn’t know it then, and I am still learning this now: Life is really hard because that is the reality of”
“We are all the grafted. Cut and wounded. Joined at the places of loss. United and always growing together. Hearts scarred and bound and carved into one.”
“There’s a way of life that looks harmless enough; look again—it leads straight to hell’ (Proverbs 14:12-13 MSG), and the only way through is to find the curve and bend of our own hearts and come bend the knee to a realer and better love [...] Bonding or bondage, those are always the two ways to choose in every moment.”
“Therapy is a gym for the mind. Not ashamed to have a membership”
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Book Keywords:
family, love-in-pain, theraphy, addiction, naming, shame, comfort, pain
