Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference. - Anne Lamott

For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of all.

I went around saying for a long time that I am not one of those Christians who is heavily into forgiveness — that I am one of the other kind. But even though it was funny, and actually true, it started to be too painful to stay this way. They say we are not punished for the sin but by the sin, and I began to feel punished by my unwillingness to forgive.

One rarely knows where to begin the search for meaning, though by necessity, we can only start where we are.