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#1

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy鈥攖he experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
― Brene Brown

tags: belonging, courage, inspirational, light, love, vulnerability

1981 likes

#2

“We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot be
naturally loved.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: charity, love, natural, naturally

25 likes

#3

“Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

tags: abuse, advice, childhood, getting-started, incest, memoir, memories, memory, remembering, writing

226 likes

#4

“The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

tags: difficulties, enlightenment, humor, inspirational, road

212 likes

#5

“Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

tags: patience, writing

204 likes

#6

“As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: grace, planned-parenthood, reproductive-rights

166 likes

#7

“I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.”
― Anne Lamott

125 likes

#8

“Oh phosphorescence. Now there鈥檚 a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within 鈥� is the genius behind poetry.”
― William Luce, The Belle of Amherst

tags: emily-dickinson, light

403 likes

#9

“The Soul selects her own Society.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: soul

75 likes

#10

“open me carefully”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

tags: correspondence, emily-dickinson, letter

82 likes

#11

“I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious”
― Emily Dickinson

56 likes

#12

“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”
― Flannery O' Connor

20 likes

#13

“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
― Jalalu'l-din Rumi

tags: divinity, love, poetry, rumi, spiritual, sufi

1573 likes

#14

“Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: birds, joy, youth

544 likes

#15

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don鈥檛 make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can鈥檛 take their eyes off of you.”
― Maya Angelou

3016 likes

#16

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

tags: acceptance, comfort, home, protection, safety, security

820 likes

#17

“Live as though life was created for you.”
― Maya Angelou

201 likes

#18

“This is what youth must figure out:
Girls, love, and living.
The having, the not having,
The spending and giving,
And the meloncholy time of not knowing.

This is what age must learn about:
The ABC of dying.
The going, yet not going,
The loving and leaving,
And the unbearable knowing and knowing”
― EB White

tags: death

95 likes

#19

“Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.”
― E.B. White

67 likes

#20

“You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing...after all, what's a life anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die...By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte鈥檚 Web

80 likes

#21

“You will lose someone you can鈥檛 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鈥檛 seal back up. And you come through. It鈥檚 like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly鈥攖hat still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: grief, loss, recovery

3979 likes

#22

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth

1977 likes

#23

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

1258 likes

#24

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

5533 likes

#25

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: criticism, humor, writing

2041 likes

#26

“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away

tags: cults, delusion, extremism, fanaticism, fanatics, guerrilla-decontextualism, madness, mental-health, neurosis, political-extremism, psychosis, religious-extremism, self-deception, zealots

126 likes

#27

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31365 likes

#28

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

6790 likes

#29

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

5770 likes

#30

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: art, arts-and-humanities, creative-process, writing

4390 likes

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