“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Traveling Mercies
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.”
Quitting the paint factory: On the virtues of idleness
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