Michele Cushatt > Michele's Quotes

“I could either hang on to fear or hold on to my faith. But I could not hang on to both.”
― Michele Cushatt, Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life

“But a full life doesn’t mean an easy life. In many cases, it means just the opposite.”
― Michele Cushatt, Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life

“don’t know what’s more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you’re doing. — JIM GAFFIGAN, Dad Is Fat”
― Michele Cushatt, Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life

“Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. — ANNE LAMOTT, Bird by Bird”
― Michele Cushatt, Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life

“authenticity ministers far more than put-togetherness. And vulnerability builds a far stronger bond than perfection.”
― Michele Cushatt, Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life

“Peace isn’t a byproduct of control, the payout of a happy conclusion. Peace is the infiltrating, life-giving presence of a very real God. One who loves nothing more than to step into the middle of locked and darkened rooms and impossible circumstances, close enough to touch.”
― Michele Cushatt, Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life

“There is strength in empty. Not the kind of strength we wish for. We want polished strength, the kind that wears a cape and leaps tall buildings with a single bound. I couldn’t leap or fly or save anyone from catastrophe. In fact, I could barely show up. But I did. Show up. And that ended up being a strength all of its own.”
― Michele Cushatt, Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life

“horror”
― Michele Cushatt, Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life

“Worry, like cancer, consumes life, eating away at a person from the inside out. It exaggerates the unknown and clouds the known until the worried person sees only the horror of what might be, rather than the beauty of what already is.”
― Michele Cushatt, Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life

“In all of my mothering failings, I’d managed to get one thing right. Love. And it mattered most of all.”
― Michele Cushatt, Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life