Me and You

"To love yourself is a miracle.
And to seek yourself  is to have
found yourself.  For now,
and now is all we have. And
love is who we are."  -Anne Lamott

Forgive and Forget

"Not forgiving is like drinking cat poison and then waiting for the rat to die."   
Anne Lamott

The Bad News and the Good

"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

Lighten Up

"I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right. - author Anne Lamott, in a recent interview. (Source: The Washington Times)"

Finding Who You Are

"We begin to find and become ourselves when
we notice how we are already found, already
truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously
WHO WE WERE BORN TO BE." -Anne Lamott

The Books We Love to Love

"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

The Mystery of Grace

"I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us." — Anne Lamott

Useful rusty old tools

"It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox, full of shiny tools:

The saw of discernment,
the hammer of wisdom,
the sandpaper of patience.

But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty, bent old tools-

friendships,
prayer,
conscience,
honesty

- and said, "Do the best you can with these, they will have to do. And mostly, against all odds, they're enough."
-from "Travelling Mercies" by Anne Lamott