[Lamott is an unstoppable storyteller, whether writing about church-going with a sullen adolescent or reconciling with her late mother. She rages against the Iraq war but takes comfort from her sage-like Presbyterian minister, who says faith] is not about how we feel; it is about how we live. ... Rule 1: We are all family. Rule 2: You reap exactly what you sow, that is, you cannot grow tulips from zucchini seeds. Rule 3: Try to breathe every few minutes or so. Rule 4: It helps beyond words to plant bulbs in the dark of winter. Rule 5: It is immoral to hit first. |
A hundred years from now? All new people. |
All the older people who are thriving have stayed physically active — there are exceptions, and everyone knows someone who smoked two packs a day and had a few social beers with breakfast every morning who lived to be 85, but you have to assume that this won't be you, ... Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith. |
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. |
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. |
Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try. |
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. |
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. |
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. |
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere . . .You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away. |
Since I gave up hope I feel much better |
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. |
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. |
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. |