Anne Lamott

The incredible blessings of my life make me hope I get to live a little longer or a lot longer. But then also, the incredible blessings of my life are a direct result of having confronted death.

I think that’s a great paradox. That the closer you draw to death, to sitting with it and knowing it and having lived through other people’s deaths and seeing how safe and beautifully cared for we are, it just so enhances life because there’s a little benevolent pressure to really live because it doesn’t last forever and it just goes by so quickly.

Anne Lamott