Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers Quotes
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.
...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much.