Joellyn Schwerdlin > Joellyn's Quotes

“So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all.”
― Alphonse Karr

“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.”
― Anne Lamott, Joe Jones

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”
― Anne Lamott

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Expectations are resentments under construction.”
― Anne Lamott