More than any other sentence I have ever come across, I love Ram Dass’s line that when all is said and done, we are all just walking each other home. - Anne Lamott

Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

"You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)"