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Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They're sacred.

I'm not killing myself, I think as I open the door. I'm just not doing what's required to live. There has to be a difference. I

Life is brutal, but it's also beautiful. Life is Brutiful.

She is trying to be brave, but no one knows what brave looks like inside this particular moment.

Our story is the only thing we have that is completely our own. A person who steals it and uses it to entertain is the worst kind of thief. Then

What if in skipping the pain, I was missing my lessons?

The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.

You have to be known to be loved, and none of these waving people knows me.

You have to turn your head to see peripheral miracles.

That's the thing about parenting: anxious if you do, anxious if you don't.

Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to be touched by love or pain.

My whole life is an apology, and that hasn't made a damn thing better.

A heart expands exactly as much as her owner allows.

If I want to know: Is there anyone on earth who won't betray me? I must answer myself: Yes. Look in the mirror. She won't betray you. So

Grace makes no disclaimer. It's true for all or none.

I wonder if the priest knows that while he's up here charging for forgiveness, Mary's back there handing it out for free.

I must smile as we go down so everyone can drown peacefully.

They wanted to adore me and I complicated things by inserting myself into their experience of me. I

We can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved.

Grieving with another person is one of the holiest places to be.

I don't think kids are any crueler than adults. I just think kids are less adept at disguising their cruelty.

Forgiveness and grace are like oxygen: we can't offer it to others unless we put our masks on first.

She pauses and then says: "Maybe, for now, the only right decision is to stop making decisions.

But the paradox of pain is that it is only universal in retrospect. In the present, it is fiercely personal.

People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don't need help.

Books are how I learned to disappear, to live in a world other than the uncomfortable physical one.

Reading is my inhale and writing is my exhale.

God approaches us in the disguise of other people.

Quit trying to become a better parent and decided to try becoming a better person.

When one is burying a dream, one might as well plant another dream.

I'm not big on advice, mainly because most days I learn what an idiot I was yesterday.

When you write your truth, it is a love offering to the world because it helps us feel braver and less alone.

Marketers need us to believe that our pain is a mistake that can be solved with their product.

So what is it in a human life that creates bravery, kindness, wisdom, and reilience? What if it's pain? What if it's the struggle?

I have accepted another one of life's dangerous invitations: the invitation to feel. My

Stop making parenthood harder by pretending it's not hard.

What can I, as a neighbor, do to help level the playing field?

that we are just scattered pieces of the same puzzle, so when we hurt each other, we hurt ourselves.

I need to sit with the quiet. I know that much.

I have met my self and I am going to care for her fiercely.

I promised myself it would all be okay if I followed three simple rules: Show Up, Be Brave, and Be Kind. No

Let's begin at the beginning. It's our only choice, it turns out.

Most of the magic in my life has happened after my heart has been shattered.

Life is hard - not because we're doing it wrong, just because it's hard.

Thought a lot about how beautiful and powerful courage and faith are when they are found together.

Each day, we're making sandcastles I know will be washed away. I long for something solid, lasting, strong between us.

Who else but a sibling travels with you from the start of life's path to the bitter end?

Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I'm trying.

It strikes me that it's always religious people who are most surprised by grace.

Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.

They look because she's lovely but they stare because she is love.

We talked about how impossible it is to read minds and hearts and what a relief it is to hear what the person you love needs and learn how to give it.

Because love is not something for which to search or wait or hope or dream. Its simply something to do.

Happiness is low expectations paired with a short-term memory problem.

them to embrace being human instead

I'm stuck in anxiety quicksand: The harder I try to climb my way out, the lower I sink.

When they speak to you from their fear
speak past their fear and directly to their love. Their Love will step forward eventually.

What is to give light must endure burning. - Viktor E. Frankl

The messiest parts of our lives are also the most beautiful parts of our lives.

I am confident because I believe that I am a child of God. I am humble because I believe that everyone else is too.

These things will be hard to do, but you can do hard things.

What if pain - like love - is just a place brave people visit?

sometimes we get confused and believe that our gift must bring us money or success or fame.

But I drink differently than they do. They drink to take the edge off. I drink to disappear.

Don't ask, "What can I do?" She doesn't know. Just do something.

Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who I am supposed to be.

Maybe there is no way for love to fail, because the eventual result of all love is New Life.

His forgetfulness feels like carelessness, and his carelessness feels like rejection.

Teamwork. Love takes teamwork, I think.

No woman on earth doesn't give a fuck - no woman is that cool - she's just hidden her fire. Likely, it's burning her up.

Whatever is our new spiritual motto and mantra. Whatever is divine.

I just need to know if you can really know me and still love me,

We either allow ourselves to feel the burn of our own pain or someone we love gets burned by it.

crap. I do not know why this is my solution, but when I arrive

Having something to say and no one to hear it is so lonely.

Sister, who needs an umbrella when you are the whole sky?" All

I'd like to be kind, and at the very least not add to people's pain.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.