Life Quotes Quote by Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It’s the people who, near or far, know everything that’s wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they’re at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.”

“Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.”

“Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.”

“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”

“The land knows you, even when you are lost.”

“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”