“I would like to have something to believe in, but it is difficult. Everything my generation was promised got blown away like clouds of smoke curling from the ends of cigarettes in the mouths of politicians and bankers. It is hard not to be cynical and critical of everything, and yet perhaps there is an opening, too. When the present begins to fracture, there is room for the future to be written.”
― Saltwater
― Saltwater
“What if we can't be anything we want to be? What if the goal isn't to hustle but to be faithful? What if the magic of life is found in the mundane, and it comes when we're faithful?”
― To Hell with the Hustle
― To Hell with the Hustle
“Only when we truly know rest and celebration can we know how to work and enjoy it. We work from rest, not to get rest.”
― To Hell with the Hustle
― To Hell with the Hustle
“I love recipes like this, reading them and making them. There’s something brilliant about a recipe that doesn’t ask too much of you; a recipe, in fact, where getting it exactly right would be exactly wrong; a recipe you can fiddle with, and tend to when you remember.”
― Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
― Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
“I’ll even say it a little more plainly for those in the back: we as humans are the summation of our repeated practices and rituals. Humans aren’t made. We are formed.”
― To Hell with the Hustle: Reclaiming Your Life in an Overworked, Overspent, and Overconnected World
― To Hell with the Hustle: Reclaiming Your Life in an Overworked, Overspent, and Overconnected World
Amy’s 2025 Year in Books
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