As I have said before, I love Anne Lamott. She is profound and funny and inspiring. These are a few quotes from her.
"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
"It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T."
— Anne Lamott (Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith)
"You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way. "
— Anne Lamott (Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith)
Hey, just wanted to say thanks for putting up this post. The first quote was really inspiring! I forwarded it to a friend of mine who was having a lot of trouble dealing with a relationship and it made him feel so much better and gave him hope! So once again, thanks :) Happy Easter!
ReplyDeleteSo glad to pass on the goodness. Happy Easter to you, too.
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