Stephanie Gross

“When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.”
― Laurence J. Peter

“If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird