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Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son QUOTES

1 " Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these years. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

2 " grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

3 " It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

4 " You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

5 " And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

6 " Tom said either you learn to live with paradox and ambiguity or you'll be 6 years old for the rest of your life. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

7 " I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

8 " You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

9 " Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

10 " We aren't a drop in the ocean, but are the ocean, in drops. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

11 " I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

12 " It is funny how no one seems to want my always excellent advice. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

13 " Maybe what we say to each other is not so important after all, but just that we are alive together, and present for each other as best we can be. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

14 " I recognize the divinity in you, but actually more like, I recognize our each-otherness, instantly "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

15 " Life is like a nice fresh batch of Swiss cheese. Note to self: savor the holes, too, like the spaces between musical notes. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

16 " The single most radical thing I know . . . is that I get to take care of myself. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

17 " Children should not have treacherous diseases or be afraid. This should be one rule we all agree on. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

18 " You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals at home. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

19 " This family business can be so stressful - difficult, damaged people showing up t spend time with other difficult, damanged people "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

20 " This kind of beauty softens you and expands you, which is good, but of course it makes you vulnerable to all sorts of horrible things, like, oh, feelings. And being in your body. "

― Anne Lamott , Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son