Anne Lamott

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
― Anne Lamott

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.
― Anne Lamott

And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.
― Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be
right. You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
― Anne Lamott

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
― Anne Lamott

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith