Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in.
Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
The difference between you and God is that God doesn’t think He’s you.
Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.
I don’t think anything is the opposite of love.
For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
We’re out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.
If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don’t have a very interesting problem.