1. If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts for ever.”
2. “I’ve heard that our greatest cross to carry ourselves – how gravely we fall short.”
3. “When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.”
4. “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
5. “If our lives are made up of string of a thousand moments, at some of the moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.”
6. “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
7. “Some people seem to understand this – that life and change take time – but I am not one of those people.”
8. “You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”
9. “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.”
10. “I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.”
11. “We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.”
12. “Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”
13. “These days cry out, as never before. for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.”
14. “Joy is the best makeup.”
15. “I write because writing is the gift of God has given me to help people in the world.”
16. “Hope is not about proving anything. It’s choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.”
17. “You don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.”
18. “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”
19. “A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.”
20. “Laughter is carbonated holiness.”
