I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

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.

Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success.

Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be--and are ruined.

I'm not trying to be this cool girl. If you're trying to be something you're not, it's slowly going to bite you in the butt.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Change is good but dollars are better. - Tara daniels

Ya wanna be an artist? Make art!

You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long at high altitudes and your hearing dulls and your eyesight dims.

I'm not much of a conformist.

How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.